lightfootletters's ActivityTypepadTypepadtag:typepad.com,2003:profile.typepad.com/services/activity/atom/tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/personhttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0240a48117dc200d lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-04-27T17:38:16Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0240a48117d9200dMayor Petehttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2019-04-27T17:38:15Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>&#0160;</p> <p>Openly gay Democratic presidential candidate wants to &#39;broker that peace deal with Chick-fil-A</p> <p>Pete Buttigieg, the Indiana mayor seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020,&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Mar. 27, 2019</p> <p>Mr. Mayor,&#0160;</p> <p>To achieve your goal is very simple. You and your community should stop harassment and threats to harm those with witch you disagree on religious beliefs. Especially, since you, your community and the Democrat Party fully embrace the Military Political Complex of Islam and &#0160;the penalty for being Gay is &#0160;Death !?</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>As a liberal myself it is hard to be liberal to a mean spirited&#0160;intolerant religious bigots, extremely anti-liberal individuals or political parties such as yourself and the Democrats who actually are, &#0160;what they accuse others of being..</p> <p>...but I try !?</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>“There is a pressing need for a liberalism in the North which is truly liberal,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. New York City 1960.&#0160;</p> <p>The pressing &#0160;need is urgent in South Bend and San Antonio.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Openly gay Democratic presidential candidate wants to &#39;broker that peace deal with Chick-fil-A</p> <p>Pete Buttigieg, the Indiana mayor seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020,&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Mar. 27, 2019</p> <p>Mr. Mayor,&#0160;</p> <p>To achieve your goal is very simple. You and your community should stop harassment and threats to harm those with witch you disagree on religious beliefs. Especially, since you, your community and the Democrat Party fully embrace the Military Political Complex of Islam and &#0160;the penalty for being Gay is &#0160;Death !?</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>As a liberal myself it is hard to be liberal to a mean spirited&#0160;intolerant religious bigots, extremely anti-liberal individuals or political parties such as yourself and the Democrats who actually are, &#0160;what they accuse others of being..</p> <p>...but I try !?</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>“There is a pressing need for a liberalism in the North which is truly liberal,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. New York City 1960.&#0160;</p> <p>The pressing &#0160;need is urgent in South Bend and San Antonio.</p> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0240a4911003200b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-03-08T18:47:11Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0240a4911000200bWHAT is ANTI-SEMITIC Brunei Muslims implements stoning to death under anti-LGBT laws. ... or Islamic law. BBC 2019Brunei Muslims implements stoning to death under anti-LGBT laws. ... or Islamic law. BBC 2019Brunei Muslims implements stoning to death undhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2019-03-08T18:47:11Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div class="_17Jc6QO1QjTKmo_3K8hSZn YFtQ2HcVd7qxiOXuKcekC allowTextSelection"> <div class="BodyFragment"> <div class="PlainText" style="text-align: justify;">What’s anti-Semitic? <br />David Leonhardt<br />NYT - Feb. 12, 2019<br /><br />Mr. Leonhardt,<br /><br />You call this anti-Semitic while overlooking the serious nature and history of The Military Political Complex of Islam. &#0160; &#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">Israel has &quot;hypnotized the world” to keep people from seeing its “evil doings.”Congresswoman Ilham Omar</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"><img src="webkit-fake-url://1D76BF7E-2F22-4DCD-A0A2-8E091AF10E55/imagepng" /></div> <div class="PlainText">Would you consider the Prophet Mohammed and almost 1400 years of the same history Anti-Semitic !?<br />A battle, at Badr,(627) between the followers of Mohammad and the Meccans protecting the caravans which Mohammad won led to victory celebrations.&#0160; Returning to Yathrib al Madinah he celebrated by killing non-supporters in the Jewish tribes under his control. <br />This was considered a great victory for Mohammad. In celebration Mohammad and his followers killed over 900 Jewish men, who had done him no harm,&#0160; and sold the women and children into slavery. Then expelled two more Jewish tribes from their<br />homelands in the areas&#0160; he controlled.<br />H G Wells&#0160; 1920<br />CAIR&#0160; 2012<br /><br />I do not care what you call it !!<br />The honor killing and murder and slave culture of Islam is unacceptable by any person with any morality or decency about them. <br />Just because Muslims cross a international border or we elect them to Congress does not change the facts. They are still followers of the Prophet.<br /><br />Lightfoot Letters</div> <div class="PlainText"><br /><br />More Little Bits of History....<br /><br />United States President Thomas Jefferson ordered the Navy and Marines to stop <br />Muslim pirates from the Barbary States seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, demanding the U.S. pay tribute to the Barbary rulers. The President refused to pay this tribute.</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Islam &quot;was founded on the laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that ll nations who would not acknowledge</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">make slaves of all they could take prisoners, and that ever Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.&quot; - Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja - Tripoli Ambassador to Great Britain, 1786. He was answering the question why Muslims enslave and attack Americans.</p> </div> <div class="PlainText"><br />1801- 1805<br />1.25 million Europeans were captured by Muslim pirates and sold as slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries.</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">The Bashi Bazouks Muslims killed the pregnant women and killed the unborn infants to insure their ticket to heaven.<br />The Village of Batak<br />Daily News - August 1876<br /><br />(We) must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.&quot; - <br />The Liberal Lion<br />Sir Winston Spencer Churchill<br />1864 - 1965<br /><br />Jeddah Business District<br />Saudi Arabia<br />A man and a woman had been declared guilty of murder. The man was brought before the Prince, a nephew of the King and charges were read. The man was quickly decapitated by the executioner.<br />&quot;Now a woman was dragged forward. She too was under thirty and slender. The recital of her crime was read. Then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave (wooden pole) and delt her a hundred blows with all his strength upon her shoulder. As the flogging (beating) ended the woman sagged over on her side. Next a lorry (truck) loaded with rocks and stones deposited it&#39;s cargo in a pile.&#0160;&#0160; At a signal from the Prince the crowd leaped on the stones and started pelting the woman to death. The crowd no longer silent. The men snarled and shouted as they flung their stones, their faces transformed into masks of sadism. It took over an hour before the doctor in attendance, who halted the stoning periodically to feel the victims pulse, announced her dead. It was difficult to determine how she was facing her last and awful ordeal, since she was veiled in Muslim fashion and her mouth was gagged to muffle her cries.&quot;<br />&#39;Come to the Middle East,&#39; pleaded an air lines poster in a nerby window. &#39;Savor it&#39;s romance, it&#39;s colour, it&#39;s quaint traditions...&#39;<br />R. M. Macoll - Feb. 1958<br />&quot;The handful of horrified Europeans in the crowd will not quickly forget.&quot; <br />(evidently they did)<br /><br />Followers of the Prophet Mohammad, the Muslim&#39;s <br />invasion of India greatly increased &#39;religious diversity.&#39; Muslim rulers inflicted oppressive taxes, killed and enslaved the infidel Hindus.<br />Just as Mahmud, the Turkish Muslim, had killed and enslaved Hindus before them.<br />Irving Gordon - 1979<br />World History <br /><br />In Louis, MO, a 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing &#39;dishonor&#39; to their family by dating an &#39;infidel&#39; African-American.<br />Nov. 6, 1989<br /><br />Muslims detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. Feb. 2, 1993<br /><br />&quot;Followers of the Prophetic Mohammad always cast the <br />First Stone.&quot; - Lightfoot 2000<br /><br />On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army Muslim (major and psychiatrist) fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. <br /><br />The U.K. law enforcement reported at least 2,823 individuals classified as victims of honor crimes. 2010<br /><br />CAIRO -- A video showing Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Muslims burning a captive Jordanian pilot to death brought an outpouring of grief and rage. CBS - 2015<br /><br />DOJ estimates 23 to 27 victims of Honor Crimes each year in the United States of America. 2016<br /><br />Qandeel Baloch&#39;s death reignited polarizing calls for action against the &quot;epidemic&quot; of honour killings.&#0160;&#0160; 2016<br /><br />Muslim migrant runs down eight innocent people on a bike path while praising Allah. New<br />York - Oct. 31, 2017</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"> <div class="PlainText">HER CRIME &#0160;? Defending Women’s Rights in Iran &quot;Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for defending women who removed their head scarves.&quot;</div> <div class="PlainText">New York Times -Mar. 14, 2019</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"><span style="line-height: 1.3;">“Islam is a dangerous set of beliefs totally incompatible with Western beliefs concerning freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association.”</span></div> Professor Carol Swain - 2018</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">A Good Read - HONOR LOST</div> <div class="PlainText">by Norma Khouri - 2003<br /><br /><br />Guest comments to:<br />lightfoot.letters@live.com</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"><br />&#0160;<br /><br /><br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="_17Jc6QO1QjTKmo_3K8hSZn YFtQ2HcVd7qxiOXuKcekC allowTextSelection"> <div class="BodyFragment"> <div class="PlainText" style="text-align: justify;">What’s anti-Semitic? <br />David Leonhardt<br />NYT - Feb. 12, 2019<br /><br />Mr. Leonhardt,<br /><br />You call this anti-Semitic while overlooking the serious nature and history of The Military Political Complex of Islam. &#0160; &#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">Israel has &quot;hypnotized the world” to keep people from seeing its “evil doings.”Congresswoman Ilham Omar</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"><img src="webkit-fake-url://1D76BF7E-2F22-4DCD-A0A2-8E091AF10E55/imagepng" /></div> <div class="PlainText">Would you consider the Prophet Mohammed and almost 1400 years of the same history Anti-Semitic !?<br />A battle, at Badr,(627) between the followers of Mohammad and the Meccans protecting the caravans which Mohammad won led to victory celebrations.&#0160; Returning to Yathrib al Madinah he celebrated by killing non-supporters in the Jewish tribes under his control. <br />This was considered a great victory for Mohammad. In celebration Mohammad and his followers killed over 900 Jewish men, who had done him no harm,&#0160; and sold the women and children into slavery. Then expelled two more Jewish tribes from their<br />homelands in the areas&#0160; he controlled.<br />H G Wells&#0160; 1920<br />CAIR&#0160; 2012<br /><br />I do not care what you call it !!<br />The honor killing and murder and slave culture of Islam is unacceptable by any person with any morality or decency about them. <br />Just because Muslims cross a international border or we elect them to Congress does not change the facts. They are still followers of the Prophet.<br /><br />Lightfoot Letters</div> <div class="PlainText"><br /><br />More Little Bits of History....<br /><br />United States President Thomas Jefferson ordered the Navy and Marines to stop <br />Muslim pirates from the Barbary States seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, demanding the U.S. pay tribute to the Barbary rulers. The President refused to pay this tribute.</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Islam &quot;was founded on the laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that ll nations who would not acknowledge</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">make slaves of all they could take prisoners, and that ever Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.&quot; - Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja - Tripoli Ambassador to Great Britain, 1786. He was answering the question why Muslims enslave and attack Americans.</p> </div> <div class="PlainText"><br />1801- 1805<br />1.25 million Europeans were captured by Muslim pirates and sold as slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries.</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">The Bashi Bazouks Muslims killed the pregnant women and killed the unborn infants to insure their ticket to heaven.<br />The Village of Batak<br />Daily News - August 1876<br /><br />(We) must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.&quot; - <br />The Liberal Lion<br />Sir Winston Spencer Churchill<br />1864 - 1965<br /><br />Jeddah Business District<br />Saudi Arabia<br />A man and a woman had been declared guilty of murder. The man was brought before the Prince, a nephew of the King and charges were read. The man was quickly decapitated by the executioner.<br />&quot;Now a woman was dragged forward. She too was under thirty and slender. The recital of her crime was read. Then the executioner stepped forward with a wooden stave (wooden pole) and delt her a hundred blows with all his strength upon her shoulder. As the flogging (beating) ended the woman sagged over on her side. Next a lorry (truck) loaded with rocks and stones deposited it&#39;s cargo in a pile.&#0160;&#0160; At a signal from the Prince the crowd leaped on the stones and started pelting the woman to death. The crowd no longer silent. The men snarled and shouted as they flung their stones, their faces transformed into masks of sadism. It took over an hour before the doctor in attendance, who halted the stoning periodically to feel the victims pulse, announced her dead. It was difficult to determine how she was facing her last and awful ordeal, since she was veiled in Muslim fashion and her mouth was gagged to muffle her cries.&quot;<br />&#39;Come to the Middle East,&#39; pleaded an air lines poster in a nerby window. &#39;Savor it&#39;s romance, it&#39;s colour, it&#39;s quaint traditions...&#39;<br />R. M. Macoll - Feb. 1958<br />&quot;The handful of horrified Europeans in the crowd will not quickly forget.&quot; <br />(evidently they did)<br /><br />Followers of the Prophet Mohammad, the Muslim&#39;s <br />invasion of India greatly increased &#39;religious diversity.&#39; Muslim rulers inflicted oppressive taxes, killed and enslaved the infidel Hindus.<br />Just as Mahmud, the Turkish Muslim, had killed and enslaved Hindus before them.<br />Irving Gordon - 1979<br />World History <br /><br />In Louis, MO, a 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing &#39;dishonor&#39; to their family by dating an &#39;infidel&#39; African-American.<br />Nov. 6, 1989<br /><br />Muslims detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. Feb. 2, 1993<br /><br />&quot;Followers of the Prophetic Mohammad always cast the <br />First Stone.&quot; - Lightfoot 2000<br /><br />On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army Muslim (major and psychiatrist) fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. <br /><br />The U.K. law enforcement reported at least 2,823 individuals classified as victims of honor crimes. 2010<br /><br />CAIRO -- A video showing Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Muslims burning a captive Jordanian pilot to death brought an outpouring of grief and rage. CBS - 2015<br /><br />DOJ estimates 23 to 27 victims of Honor Crimes each year in the United States of America. 2016<br /><br />Qandeel Baloch&#39;s death reignited polarizing calls for action against the &quot;epidemic&quot; of honour killings.&#0160;&#0160; 2016<br /><br />Muslim migrant runs down eight innocent people on a bike path while praising Allah. New<br />York - Oct. 31, 2017</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"> <div class="PlainText">HER CRIME &#0160;? Defending Women’s Rights in Iran &quot;Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for defending women who removed their head scarves.&quot;</div> <div class="PlainText">New York Times -Mar. 14, 2019</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"><span style="line-height: 1.3;">“Islam is a dangerous set of beliefs totally incompatible with Western beliefs concerning freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association.”</span></div> Professor Carol Swain - 2018</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText">A Good Read - HONOR LOST</div> <div class="PlainText">by Norma Khouri - 2003<br /><br /><br />Guest comments to:<br />lightfoot.letters@live.com</div> <div class="PlainText">&#0160;</div> <div class="PlainText"><br />&#0160;<br /><br /><br /></div> </div> </div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3e19401200b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-02-11T06:33:38Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3e193fe200bBlack History Monthhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2019-02-11T06:33:37Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>WDAM 7.1 &#0160; NBC</p> <p>Feb. 10, 2019</p> <p>Promo: Black History Month</p> <p>It is always a noble idea to celebrate the rights under our Constitution &#0160;outlined by John Locke’s Second Treatise on government established the *philosophical foundation for much of the American system of government and brought forth the idea of “natural rights,”&#0160;</p> <p>A segregated Congress, a segregated State Legislature,&#0160;segregated Student Unions and segregated museums, segregated history etc.,is not the just or the best way forward.</p> <p>Fredrick Douglas was as concerned about women&#39;s &#0160;right to vote as the right of&#0160;slaves to vote. &#0160;I do not think *Douglas would&#0160;be pleased to see US putting&#0160;segregation back in public&#0160;policy just like the Democrat&#0160;Party and the Klan of the past.</p> <p>Just a thought,</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sent from my iPhone &#0160;somewhere in space and time where&#0160;&quot;The genius of America is that out of the many we became one. Providence has enabled our paths to intersect. His fore parents came to America on immigrant ships. &#0160; My fore parents came to America on slave ships. But, whatever the original ships, we&#39;re in the same boat tonight.</p> <p>Rev. Jessie Jackson - July 20, 1988</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>*liberal philosophy&#0160;</p> <p>*or King or King Jr.&#0160;</p> <p>WDAM 7.1 &#0160; NBC</p> <p>Feb. 10, 2019</p> <p>Promo: Black History Month</p> <p>It is always a noble idea to celebrate the rights under our Constitution &#0160;outlined by John Locke’s Second Treatise on government established the *philosophical foundation for much of the American system of government and brought forth the idea of “natural rights,”&#0160;</p> <p>A segregated Congress, a segregated State Legislature,&#0160;segregated Student Unions and segregated museums, segregated history etc.,is not the just or the best way forward.</p> <p>Fredrick Douglas was as concerned about women&#39;s &#0160;right to vote as the right of&#0160;slaves to vote. &#0160;I do not think *Douglas would&#0160;be pleased to see US putting&#0160;segregation back in public&#0160;policy just like the Democrat&#0160;Party and the Klan of the past.</p> <p>Just a thought,</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sent from my iPhone &#0160;somewhere in space and time where&#0160;&quot;The genius of America is that out of the many we became one. Providence has enabled our paths to intersect. His fore parents came to America on immigrant ships. &#0160; My fore parents came to America on slave ships. But, whatever the original ships, we&#39;re in the same boat tonight.</p> <p>Rev. Jessie Jackson - July 20, 1988</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>*liberal philosophy&#0160;</p> <p>*or King or King Jr.&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39370df200c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2019-01-28T05:45:59Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39370db200cBlack Historyhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2019-01-28T05:45:59Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p style="text-align: justify;">Jan. 23, 2019</p> <p>The Root -&#0160;Michael Harriot&#0160;</p> <p>&quot;I have always believed that white people would be better off if they studied more black history.&quot;Michael Harriot - The RootJan. 22, 2019 - 1:58 PM</p> <p>I have always believed black&#0160;people would be better off if they studied black history.&#0160;</p> <p>A little history;&#0160;</p> <p>“There is a pressing need for a liberalism in the North which is truly liberal,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told an interracial audience in New York City in 1960.&#0160;</p> <p>“The white moderate” was more of an obstacle than “the Ku Klux Klanner.” Dr. King.</p> <p>I&#39;m sure Dr. King knew that the Ku Klux Klanner in 1960 was a Democrat or the Democrat Party was the Klan especially&#0160;in the Old South. I&#39;m also sure&#0160;he knew if he pointed it out it&#0160;could get him an early grave. The Klan, also the extreme opposite of any liberal philosophy or liberal political &#0160;philosophy.</p> <p>Dr. King Sr., a LincolnRepublican, and Dr. King Jr. knew the difference !?</p> <p>Lightfoot</p> <p>Ms. or Calif.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>(because of the current climate of political violence advocated by the Democrat Party and their supporters I will no longer Include my physical location)</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Jan. 23, 2019</p> <p>The Root -&#0160;Michael Harriot&#0160;</p> <p>&quot;I have always believed that white people would be better off if they studied more black history.&quot;Michael Harriot - The RootJan. 22, 2019 - 1:58 PM</p> <p>I have always believed black&#0160;people would be better off if they studied black history.&#0160;</p> <p>A little history;&#0160;</p> <p>“There is a pressing need for a liberalism in the North which is truly liberal,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told an interracial audience in New York City in 1960.&#0160;</p> <p>“The white moderate” was more of an obstacle than “the Ku Klux Klanner.” Dr. King.</p> <p>I&#39;m sure Dr. King knew that the Ku Klux Klanner in 1960 was a Democrat or the Democrat Party was the Klan especially&#0160;in the Old South. I&#39;m also sure&#0160;he knew if he pointed it out it&#0160;could get him an early grave. The Klan, also the extreme opposite of any liberal philosophy or liberal political &#0160;philosophy.</p> <p>Dr. King Sr., a LincolnRepublican, and Dr. King Jr. knew the difference !?</p> <p>Lightfoot</p> <p>Ms. or Calif.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>(because of the current climate of political violence advocated by the Democrat Party and their supporters I will no longer Include my physical location)</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad37bbd7d200c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-11-21T17:25:53Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad37bbd79200cThe Klan and Youhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-11-21T17:25:52Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>Senator Kamala Harris</p> <p>112 Hart Senate Office Building</p> <p>Washington, D.C. 20510</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sen. Kamala Harris Compares ICE to the KKK</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Senator Kamala Harris compared the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service to the Ku Klux Klan, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.</p> <p>Chris Reeves - November 15, 2018 - TownHall</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Senator Harris,</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>This could be more fake news.</p> <p>&#0160;I had doubts that a sitting Senator could charge average citizens working for the various departments to be all that follows.</p> <p>Protesters Surround Fox News Host Tucker Carlson&#39;s Home Chanting &#39;We Know Where You Sleep at Night&#39;</p> <p>To surround a citizen&#39;s home, with children inside, creating a climate of fear and false imprisonment is not &#0160;exercising one&#39;s &#0160;right to protest in a peaceful civil manner.&#0160;This is the work of Brown Shirts or Street Thugs or the modern version of the Klan and the night riders. They just left their white sheets at home with their brown shirts.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>The shootings, hangings, rapes, beatings, whippings, &#0160;Church burnings by the 3rd version of the Klan and the Democrat Party are not a distant memory for me. It&#39;s was just few years ago.&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Be careful what you advocate &#0160;for...it might come to pass in &#0160;the form of Government Polic&#0160;similar to the Klan, the&#0160;Democrat Party and the National Socialist (NAZI). Public Policy like hate, bias, bigotry etc., etc. are declared a crime.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>I could not find any evidence that would support your charge or comparison. I can only come to the conclusion that you do not know the history of your own Democrat Party past or present or charges that you have brought forth.</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>ps: I&#39;m not a Republican nor have I ever been a Republican.</p> <p>Possibly that is why I find it hard to believe a sitting Senator could paint so manyinnocent citizens with the crimes of The National Socialistor the Klan/Democrat Party.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>ref: The Root</p> <p>&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160;TownHall</p> <p>&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; Newsmax</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>cc: various news sources&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Senator Kamala Harris</p> <p>112 Hart Senate Office Building</p> <p>Washington, D.C. 20510</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sen. Kamala Harris Compares ICE to the KKK</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Senator Kamala Harris compared the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service to the Ku Klux Klan, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.</p> <p>Chris Reeves - November 15, 2018 - TownHall</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Senator Harris,</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>This could be more fake news.</p> <p>&#0160;I had doubts that a sitting Senator could charge average citizens working for the various departments to be all that follows.</p> <p>Protesters Surround Fox News Host Tucker Carlson&#39;s Home Chanting &#39;We Know Where You Sleep at Night&#39;</p> <p>To surround a citizen&#39;s home, with children inside, creating a climate of fear and false imprisonment is not &#0160;exercising one&#39;s &#0160;right to protest in a peaceful civil manner.&#0160;This is the work of Brown Shirts or Street Thugs or the modern version of the Klan and the night riders. They just left their white sheets at home with their brown shirts.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>The shootings, hangings, rapes, beatings, whippings, &#0160;Church burnings by the 3rd version of the Klan and the Democrat Party are not a distant memory for me. It&#39;s was just few years ago.&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Be careful what you advocate &#0160;for...it might come to pass in &#0160;the form of Government Polic&#0160;similar to the Klan, the&#0160;Democrat Party and the National Socialist (NAZI). Public Policy like hate, bias, bigotry etc., etc. are declared a crime.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>I could not find any evidence that would support your charge or comparison. I can only come to the conclusion that you do not know the history of your own Democrat Party past or present or charges that you have brought forth.</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>ps: I&#39;m not a Republican nor have I ever been a Republican.</p> <p>Possibly that is why I find it hard to believe a sitting Senator could paint so manyinnocent citizens with the crimes of The National Socialistor the Klan/Democrat Party.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>ref: The Root</p> <p>&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160;TownHall</p> <p>&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; Newsmax</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>cc: various news sources&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad376a67a200c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-10-30T16:46:36Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad376a678200cAux. Border Patrolhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-10-30T16:46:36Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oct. 24, 2018<br /><br />Cindy Hyde Smith<br />Candidate for Senate<br />State of Mississippi&#0160;<br /><br />The Honorable Senator<br />Cindy Hyde Smith<br /><br />Senator Hyde Smith,<br /><br />Please consider the following;<br /><br />The best border security is boots on the ground. This can be accomplished by creating a<br />Border Patrol Auxiliary based on The Minuteman Project. The<br />border patrol could be increased to 5 to 10 times it&#39;s<br />current size, replace the current duties of the National Guard for almost no tax &#0160;expenditures.<br /><br />The main reason seems to be that a Border Patrol Auxiliary&#0160;<br />would not create another large<br />tax &#0160;expenditure in the billions<br />of dollars and another large department of public employees but, would be effective. A physical wall would cost billions, create more government employees and would not be effective with&#0160;<br />out the same boots on the ground.<br /><br />Second, as I discussed with McCain&#39;s &#0160;staff years ago we need to enforce the laws we already have and make the best use of the Coast Guard Auxiliary before any more grandiose plans from Congress to fix the problems they themselves have caused. &#0160;<br /><br />The Republican Party has done&#0160;<br />little to nothing regarding security for The State of Ms. or<br />The Several States since Ike<br />was President.<br /><br />Good luck in your bid for Senate,&#0160;<br /><br /></span>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oct. 24, 2018<br /><br />Cindy Hyde Smith<br />Candidate for Senate<br />State of Mississippi&#0160;<br /><br />The Honorable Senator<br />Cindy Hyde Smith<br /><br />Senator Hyde Smith,<br /><br />Please consider the following;<br /><br />The best border security is boots on the ground. This can be accomplished by creating a<br />Border Patrol Auxiliary based on The Minuteman Project. The<br />border patrol could be increased to 5 to 10 times it&#39;s<br />current size, replace the current duties of the National Guard for almost no tax &#0160;expenditures.<br /><br />The main reason seems to be that a Border Patrol Auxiliary&#0160;<br />would not create another large<br />tax &#0160;expenditure in the billions<br />of dollars and another large department of public employees but, would be effective. A physical wall would cost billions, create more government employees and would not be effective with&#0160;<br />out the same boots on the ground.<br /><br />Second, as I discussed with McCain&#39;s &#0160;staff years ago we need to enforce the laws we already have and make the best use of the Coast Guard Auxiliary before any more grandiose plans from Congress to fix the problems they themselves have caused. &#0160;<br /><br />The Republican Party has done&#0160;<br />little to nothing regarding security for The State of Ms. or<br />The Several States since Ike<br />was President.<br /><br />Good luck in your bid for Senate,&#0160;<br /><br /></span>Lightfoot Letters</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39a03be200d lightfootletters posted something https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-10-18T18:51:54Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0134872e395c970c022ad39a03bd200dhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment2018-10-18T18:51:53Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269Visit to the GP.tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0134872e395c970c0134872e396d970cListening to the Voices in my Headhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3b795fd200b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-10-10T17:38:31Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3b795fa200bWOMEN'S DEATH SENTENCE http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-10-10T17:38:31Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>Christian Woman in Pakistan Beaten, Sentenced to Death &#39;For Being Thirsty&#39;By KATHERINE WEBER Aug 29, 2013&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;Pakistan delays decision on whether Christian woman will face death penalty for blasphemy against Islam</p> <p>By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News&#0160;Oct. 9, 2013</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Honor killings in the United States......</p> <p>There are an estimated 23-27 recorded honor killings in the United States annually, and the problem is growing, according to a report by the Department of Justice. The report, Honor Violence Measurement Methods, notes 91 percent of the women killed were murdered for being “too westernized.” &#0160;(non-Muslim) - clarionproject.org</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Honor killings are sacred acts. When fathers, brothers, sons, cousins, and uncles kill their own wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters, it is a ritual murder that functions as sacrifice and expiation. Every ritual murder is a symbolic act. Murder in the form of terrorism, matricide, sororicide, filicide and particular acts of suicide are all obligatory rituals in the context of an Islamist code of conduct. UCLA - EDU - Sept. 2017</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sudanese woman sentenced to death for being a Christian.&#0160;Hanna Strange - May 29, 2014 Telegraph - UK</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Christian woman sentenced to death for &#39;drinking from Muslim water cup&#39; in Pakistan may not live to face execution after five years&#39; imprisonment has left her with intestinal bleeding. Daily Mail&#0160; - By Corey Charlton &#0160;30 Jun 2015</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Pregnant Woman Gets Death Sentence for Being Christian - Polly Doing - May 15, 2014 &#0160;Newser - MIDDLE EAST Published October 21, 2014 Last Update December 10, 2015</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Pakistani court upholds death sentence for Christian woman accused of insulting Islam - By Lisa Daftari, | Fox News</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>The Modern Day &#39;Followers of &#0160;the Prophet Mohammed.&#39;</p> <p>&#39;Honor Lost&#39; by Norma Khouri&#0160;is &#0160;memorial to her best friend&#0160;Dalia, and a story of outrage at Dalia&#39;s senseless murder in the name of cultural tradition of Islam. The power of Honor Lost makes you want to do some thing, any thing, to make sure no one suffers the same fate !!</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>NOTES</p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">&quot;The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.&quot; &#0160;Sir Winston Churchill the Liberal Lion.</span></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Pamela Geller faced off against Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary. Choudary conceded he thinks Geller should get the death penalty for holding a contest to draw the prophet Muhammad.&#0160; - May 6, 2015 - KABC</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&quot;I am offended not by cartoons, but by more&#0160;mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on</p> <p>public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia&#0160;Law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women called &quot;whores&quot; in your culture.&#0160;</p> <p>S. Wichman - 2007 - Professor of Mechanical Engineering for Michigan State University&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Today is the last chance for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman in Pakistan who&#39;s been sentenced to death for her faith. She was sentenced to death by hanging in 2010. ... Today is the last chance Bibi has to appeal her death sentence. - Glenn Beck -Oct. 9, 2018</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>BEIRUT: An elderly Syrian took part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery, in a video posted on YouTube by the Islamic State group on Tuesday. Agence France Presses - Oct. 22, 2014</p> <p>Stoning at Jeddah</p> <p>A woman was dragged forward &#0160;and her crime was read out (accused of adultery, murder). The executioner dealt her&#0160; 100 blows with all his strength &#0160;upon her shoulder.</p> <p>The crowd picked up stones and started pelting the woman to death. She was facing her last awful ordeal. She was veiled in Muslim fashion, her mouth was gagged to muffle her cries. The men snarled and shouted as they flung their stones, their faces transformed into masks of sadism.</p> <p>It took over an hour before the Doctor who halted the stoning periodically to feel the victims pulse, announced her dead.</p> <p>A near by airlines poster begged out. &#39;Savor it&#39;s romance, it&#39;s colour, it&#39;s quaint traditions..&#39; - R. M. Macoll - Feb. 1958</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>No news reports were found during research by ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, &#0160;LAT or most of the MSM</p> <p>Guest comments: lightfoot.letters@live.com</p> <p>Christian Woman in Pakistan Beaten, Sentenced to Death &#39;For Being Thirsty&#39;By KATHERINE WEBER Aug 29, 2013&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;Pakistan delays decision on whether Christian woman will face death penalty for blasphemy against Islam</p> <p>By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News&#0160;Oct. 9, 2013</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Honor killings in the United States......</p> <p>There are an estimated 23-27 recorded honor killings in the United States annually, and the problem is growing, according to a report by the Department of Justice. The report, Honor Violence Measurement Methods, notes 91 percent of the women killed were murdered for being “too westernized.” &#0160;(non-Muslim) - clarionproject.org</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Honor killings are sacred acts. When fathers, brothers, sons, cousins, and uncles kill their own wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters, it is a ritual murder that functions as sacrifice and expiation. Every ritual murder is a symbolic act. Murder in the form of terrorism, matricide, sororicide, filicide and particular acts of suicide are all obligatory rituals in the context of an Islamist code of conduct. UCLA - EDU - Sept. 2017</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sudanese woman sentenced to death for being a Christian.&#0160;Hanna Strange - May 29, 2014 Telegraph - UK</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Christian woman sentenced to death for &#39;drinking from Muslim water cup&#39; in Pakistan may not live to face execution after five years&#39; imprisonment has left her with intestinal bleeding. Daily Mail&#0160; - By Corey Charlton &#0160;30 Jun 2015</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Pregnant Woman Gets Death Sentence for Being Christian - Polly Doing - May 15, 2014 &#0160;Newser - MIDDLE EAST Published October 21, 2014 Last Update December 10, 2015</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Pakistani court upholds death sentence for Christian woman accused of insulting Islam - By Lisa Daftari, | Fox News</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>The Modern Day &#39;Followers of &#0160;the Prophet Mohammed.&#39;</p> <p>&#39;Honor Lost&#39; by Norma Khouri&#0160;is &#0160;memorial to her best friend&#0160;Dalia, and a story of outrage at Dalia&#39;s senseless murder in the name of cultural tradition of Islam. The power of Honor Lost makes you want to do some thing, any thing, to make sure no one suffers the same fate !!</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>NOTES</p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">&quot;The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.&quot; &#0160;Sir Winston Churchill the Liberal Lion.</span></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Pamela Geller faced off against Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary. Choudary conceded he thinks Geller should get the death penalty for holding a contest to draw the prophet Muhammad.&#0160; - May 6, 2015 - KABC</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&quot;I am offended not by cartoons, but by more&#0160;mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on</p> <p>public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the in Turkey ), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt , the imposition of Sharia&#0160;Law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women called &quot;whores&quot; in your culture.&#0160;</p> <p>S. Wichman - 2007 - Professor of Mechanical Engineering for Michigan State University&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Today is the last chance for Asia Bibi, a Christian woman in Pakistan who&#39;s been sentenced to death for her faith. She was sentenced to death by hanging in 2010. ... Today is the last chance Bibi has to appeal her death sentence. - Glenn Beck -Oct. 9, 2018</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>BEIRUT: An elderly Syrian took part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery, in a video posted on YouTube by the Islamic State group on Tuesday. Agence France Presses - Oct. 22, 2014</p> <p>Stoning at Jeddah</p> <p>A woman was dragged forward &#0160;and her crime was read out (accused of adultery, murder). The executioner dealt her&#0160; 100 blows with all his strength &#0160;upon her shoulder.</p> <p>The crowd picked up stones and started pelting the woman to death. She was facing her last awful ordeal. She was veiled in Muslim fashion, her mouth was gagged to muffle her cries. The men snarled and shouted as they flung their stones, their faces transformed into masks of sadism.</p> <p>It took over an hour before the Doctor who halted the stoning periodically to feel the victims pulse, announced her dead.</p> <p>A near by airlines poster begged out. &#39;Savor it&#39;s romance, it&#39;s colour, it&#39;s quaint traditions..&#39; - R. M. Macoll - Feb. 1958</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>No news reports were found during research by ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, &#0160;LAT or most of the MSM</p> <p>Guest comments: lightfoot.letters@live.com</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad392008a200d lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-09-17T18:14:49Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3920087200dCBS: OVERPAID UNDER EDUCATEDhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-09-17T18:14:48Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>August 12, 2018<br /> CBS WHLT Ch. 22<br /> CBS News - 60 Minutes<br /> <br /> <br /> To the overpaid under educated personnel at&#0160; CBS 60 Minutes. <br /> <br /> Now, I admit I&#39;m also not well educated. However, I do think it is a noble idea to build a museum to shed some light on the cruel and despicable treatment of of our fellow citizens by the Klan/Democrat Party if there are less lies of omission and more truth of than lies.&#0160; <br /> <br /> I cannot figure out which of us is the most uneducated. <br /> And, I understand I am up against a strong news team with; Murphy Brown and The Opra Winfrey and crew who&#39;s goal is to spread the guilt from the guilty to the innocent. And not to mention the Babbling<br /> Bimbos and Empty Suits on daytime TV and Late Night Talk Shows. <br /> Very strong team!<br /> <br /> So right to the Question. <br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated&#0160; individuals does not know the 3rd version Klan/Democrats did not appear in public in their bed sheets and hoods. It was for the Night Riders and Cross Burnings.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know voter threats and intimidation was not just against Black Republicans or Black voters in general. White liberal Lincoln Republicans<br /> faced the same threats and intimidation by the Democrat Party/Klan without the worst violence reserved for the Black Man.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know if the beatings, rapes, shootings, hangings and church bombings was in the Old South&#0160; it was the work of the 3rd version of the <br /> Klan/Democrat Party.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know it is the Democrat Party and their <br /> supporters that is the main obstacle to the education of citizens as to the cruel treatment of some of our <br /> fellow citizens at the hands of the Klan/Democrat Party.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know the teachers, the mayors &amp; city council, the legislature, sheriffs and police chiefs that stood down or were participates in the cruel <br /> violence were Democrats/klan members and their supporters.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals&#0160; does not know the Second Version of the Klan<br /> had a national base by 1925. In the South, where the great majority of whites were Democrats, the Klansmen were Democrats. In the rest of the country, the membership comprised Republicans and Democrats, as well as Independents and controlled politics in several States.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know the reason CBS continually brings up the name of Robert E. Lee without actual details of the man Robert E. Lee. It is, because <br /> Lee and the Lee family are some of the best citizens we as a Nation of Free States have produced.&#0160; Especially for their time.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know the Confederate Battle Flag <br /> represents the Confederate Soldier. Nothing more, nothing less. It is the Klan/Democrat<br /> Party and Hollywood that has used the Flag in despicable&#0160; and dishonorable ways.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know that your own agenda is to disguise, &#0160;hide &#0160;and replace the ugly, despicable and dishonorable history of the Democrat Party from the &#0160;Civil War to the present.&#0160; <br /> <br /> And in a slightly more current direction. <br /> Which one of you over paid under educated individuals does not know that affirmative action legislation creates more Jim Crow Laws with punishments and rewards based on race. Or that promoting the ideas that there is an inherit value in having more women CEOs, especially Black women, is both <br /> sexist and racist. <br /> <br /> But, it&#39;s all good.<br /> You&#39;re Democrats !?<br /> <br />Lightfoot Letters<br /> <br /> <br /> ps; I take it personally that you<br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;stink up my favorite news<br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; program 60 Minutes. Or, <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; is it possible that it&#39;s <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; always had a stink about&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I was just too young and<br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; uneducated to know !?<br /> <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /> <br /> &#0160;As always I would like to thank Miss Boatman who tried so hard to teach me how to read and write. And, Dr. James L. Christian who tried so hard to teach me how to think...not what to think.</p> <p>Note: Comments are reference to CBS Network News or 60 Minutes<br /> <br /> </p> <p>Guest comments:&#0160; lightfoot.letters@live.com (comments from the media or CBS employees will not be disclosed unless requested by the sender/writer).</p> <p>August 12, 2018<br /> CBS WHLT Ch. 22<br /> CBS News - 60 Minutes<br /> <br /> <br /> To the overpaid under educated personnel at&#0160; CBS 60 Minutes. <br /> <br /> Now, I admit I&#39;m also not well educated. However, I do think it is a noble idea to build a museum to shed some light on the cruel and despicable treatment of of our fellow citizens by the Klan/Democrat Party if there are less lies of omission and more truth of than lies.&#0160; <br /> <br /> I cannot figure out which of us is the most uneducated. <br /> And, I understand I am up against a strong news team with; Murphy Brown and The Opra Winfrey and crew who&#39;s goal is to spread the guilt from the guilty to the innocent. And not to mention the Babbling<br /> Bimbos and Empty Suits on daytime TV and Late Night Talk Shows. <br /> Very strong team!<br /> <br /> So right to the Question. <br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated&#0160; individuals does not know the 3rd version Klan/Democrats did not appear in public in their bed sheets and hoods. It was for the Night Riders and Cross Burnings.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know voter threats and intimidation was not just against Black Republicans or Black voters in general. White liberal Lincoln Republicans<br /> faced the same threats and intimidation by the Democrat Party/Klan without the worst violence reserved for the Black Man.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know if the beatings, rapes, shootings, hangings and church bombings was in the Old South&#0160; it was the work of the 3rd version of the <br /> Klan/Democrat Party.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know it is the Democrat Party and their <br /> supporters that is the main obstacle to the education of citizens as to the cruel treatment of some of our <br /> fellow citizens at the hands of the Klan/Democrat Party.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know the teachers, the mayors &amp; city council, the legislature, sheriffs and police chiefs that stood down or were participates in the cruel <br /> violence were Democrats/klan members and their supporters.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals&#0160; does not know the Second Version of the Klan<br /> had a national base by 1925. In the South, where the great majority of whites were Democrats, the Klansmen were Democrats. In the rest of the country, the membership comprised Republicans and Democrats, as well as Independents and controlled politics in several States.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know the reason CBS continually brings up the name of Robert E. Lee without actual details of the man Robert E. Lee. It is, because <br /> Lee and the Lee family are some of the best citizens we as a Nation of Free States have produced.&#0160; Especially for their time.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know the Confederate Battle Flag <br /> represents the Confederate Soldier. Nothing more, nothing less. It is the Klan/Democrat<br /> Party and Hollywood that has used the Flag in despicable&#0160; and dishonorable ways.<br /> <br /> Which one of you overpaid under educated individuals does not know that your own agenda is to disguise, &#0160;hide &#0160;and replace the ugly, despicable and dishonorable history of the Democrat Party from the &#0160;Civil War to the present.&#0160; <br /> <br /> And in a slightly more current direction. <br /> Which one of you over paid under educated individuals does not know that affirmative action legislation creates more Jim Crow Laws with punishments and rewards based on race. Or that promoting the ideas that there is an inherit value in having more women CEOs, especially Black women, is both <br /> sexist and racist. <br /> <br /> But, it&#39;s all good.<br /> You&#39;re Democrats !?<br /> <br />Lightfoot Letters<br /> <br /> <br /> ps; I take it personally that you<br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;stink up my favorite news<br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; program 60 Minutes. Or, <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; is it possible that it&#39;s <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; always had a stink about&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I was just too young and<br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; uneducated to know !?<br /> <br /> &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /> <br /> &#0160;As always I would like to thank Miss Boatman who tried so hard to teach me how to read and write. And, Dr. James L. Christian who tried so hard to teach me how to think...not what to think.</p> <p>Note: Comments are reference to CBS Network News or 60 Minutes<br /> <br /> </p> <p>Guest comments:&#0160; lightfoot.letters@live.com (comments from the media or CBS employees will not be disclosed unless requested by the sender/writer).</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3a804d7200b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-08-12T21:08:01Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad3a804d4200bDACA Rights - A Native American Viewhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-08-12T21:08:01Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matter of Fact - &#0160;with Soledad O&#39;Brien</span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dreamers (DACA) and Their Rights - Report&#0160;</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">August 12, 2018<br />FOX 23<br /></span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Responce: A Native American Point of View</span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />As a California Native American tribal Indian, I believe the letter (&quot;We have the right to be here&quot;) &#0160;by Raul Jaramillo needs to be addressed. Mexicans were not here first. We Native American Indians were here first. And &#0160;Mexicans are not indigenous to any lands north of the US/Mexican border.<br /><br />The Spaniards who invaded our lands from Europe brought Mexican Indians into this state. The Spainish, the mestizo and Mexican Indians brought their diseases to infect our Native American tribal Indians, not the white men who came from the East. As a matter of fact, your name is Spainish. You have Spainish Blood. Therefore, you are European. When you tell white people to go back where they came from, I say the same to you: &quot;Go back to Spain, the homeland of your ancestors; it too is in Europe.&quot;<br /><br />This land did not belong to Mexicans before the Spaniards came here. The Aztec people never lived north of the US/Mexican Border. This was proved by Mexican archaeologists who discovered Aztlan to be a small valley just north of Mexico City, hundreds of miles south of the border.<br /><br />We Native American Indians are offended and appalled by Hispanic immigrants who attempt to erase the history of our indigenous native people and replace it witha pack of lies about some Mexican history that, in fact, never existed.<br /><br />Your blood is not your passport. You are not indigenous tribal Indians of California. And if you came to this country illegally, as you imply, you are a criminal, with no respect for the laws of this country.<br /><br />Sequoia<br /><br /><br />Note: I deleted the last name, specific date and city for&#0160;security reasons because of the<br />current political climate of&#0160;&#0160;violence.<br /><br />Just a coincidence I am currently reading about the&#0160;Olmec considered the first civilization in the Americas&#0160;&#0160;which confirms the factual&#0160;<br />content of the letter.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">America&#39;s First Civilization&#0160;<br />The Olmec<br />Michael Coe<br />The Smithsonian Library<br />1968<br /><br /><br />ps; the NY piece on the young&#0160;adult that was denied bail,&#0160;for a minor charge, spent&#0160;<br />three years in confinement&#0160;<br />in Rikers Island Prison, who committed suicide &#0160;was excellent and extremely important p</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">esented<br />like a good reporter, not a&#0160;journalist, that just tells stories &#0160; mi</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sleading at best.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well Done...Thank You !</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">guest comments to lightfoot.letters@live.com</span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matter of Fact - &#0160;with Soledad O&#39;Brien</span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dreamers (DACA) and Their Rights - Report&#0160;</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">August 12, 2018<br />FOX 23<br /></span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Responce: A Native American Point of View</span></p> <p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />As a California Native American tribal Indian, I believe the letter (&quot;We have the right to be here&quot;) &#0160;by Raul Jaramillo needs to be addressed. Mexicans were not here first. We Native American Indians were here first. And &#0160;Mexicans are not indigenous to any lands north of the US/Mexican border.<br /><br />The Spaniards who invaded our lands from Europe brought Mexican Indians into this state. The Spainish, the mestizo and Mexican Indians brought their diseases to infect our Native American tribal Indians, not the white men who came from the East. As a matter of fact, your name is Spainish. You have Spainish Blood. Therefore, you are European. When you tell white people to go back where they came from, I say the same to you: &quot;Go back to Spain, the homeland of your ancestors; it too is in Europe.&quot;<br /><br />This land did not belong to Mexicans before the Spaniards came here. The Aztec people never lived north of the US/Mexican Border. This was proved by Mexican archaeologists who discovered Aztlan to be a small valley just north of Mexico City, hundreds of miles south of the border.<br /><br />We Native American Indians are offended and appalled by Hispanic immigrants who attempt to erase the history of our indigenous native people and replace it witha pack of lies about some Mexican history that, in fact, never existed.<br /><br />Your blood is not your passport. You are not indigenous tribal Indians of California. And if you came to this country illegally, as you imply, you are a criminal, with no respect for the laws of this country.<br /><br />Sequoia<br /><br /><br />Note: I deleted the last name, specific date and city for&#0160;security reasons because of the<br />current political climate of&#0160;&#0160;violence.<br /><br />Just a coincidence I am currently reading about the&#0160;Olmec considered the first civilization in the Americas&#0160;&#0160;which confirms the factual&#0160;<br />content of the letter.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">America&#39;s First Civilization&#0160;<br />The Olmec<br />Michael Coe<br />The Smithsonian Library<br />1968<br /><br /><br />ps; the NY piece on the young&#0160;adult that was denied bail,&#0160;for a minor charge, spent&#0160;<br />three years in confinement&#0160;<br />in Rikers Island Prison, who committed suicide &#0160;was excellent and extremely important p</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">esented<br />like a good reporter, not a&#0160;journalist, that just tells stories &#0160; mi</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sleading at best.</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well Done...Thank You !</span></p> <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">guest comments to lightfoot.letters@live.com</span></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39e4585200b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-07-04T15:18:33Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39e4582200b4th...Just Another Dayhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-07-04T15:18:32Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>July 3, 2018</p> <p>Consider This</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>WDAM Ch 7 NBC</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">July the 4th would be just another number in a endless list of numbers. Except, it is the day we celebrate, the Natural Right of all people. That is, Independence from the control of all others without our freely given consent.<br /><br />Lightfoot</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">also comment to: &#0160;lightfoot.letters@live.com</span></p> <p>July 3, 2018</p> <p>Consider This</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>WDAM Ch 7 NBC</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">July the 4th would be just another number in a endless list of numbers. Except, it is the day we celebrate, the Natural Right of all people. That is, Independence from the control of all others without our freely given consent.<br /><br />Lightfoot</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">also comment to: &#0160;lightfoot.letters@live.com</span></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39ad944200b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2018-06-21T14:55:48Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b022ad39ad940200bhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2018-06-21T14:55:48Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>April 23, 2018</p> <p>Glenn Beck 98.1 FM</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Mr. Beck,&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Regarding your comments onGQ&#39;s do not read list. (books like Lonesome Dove and Tom Sawyer).&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>A quote from someone I knew.</p> <p>&quot;You don&#39;t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.&quot;&#0160;</p> <p>Ray Bradbury.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Lightfoot</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>ps: additions or corrections are always welcome, (note; the writer has made every effort not to use GQ&#39;s list of words that Caucasians are banned from using) and as always thanks to Ms. Boatman who tried so hard to teach me how to read and write, and Dr. James L. Christian who tried so hard to teach me how to think not what to think.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sent from my iPhone somewhere in space and time where GQ &#0160;may mean General Quisling !?</p> <p>cc:</p> <p>bcc:</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Part of the List of 21 Books not to read by GQ</p> <p>Bible&#0160;</p> <p>Catch-22</p> <p>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</p> <p>A Farewell to Arms</p> <p>The Catcher in the Rye</p> <p>Gulliver&#39;s Travels</p> <p>Comments may also be sent to: lightfoot.letters@live.com</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>April 23, 2018</p> <p>Glenn Beck 98.1 FM</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Mr. Beck,&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Regarding your comments onGQ&#39;s do not read list. (books like Lonesome Dove and Tom Sawyer).&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>A quote from someone I knew.</p> <p>&quot;You don&#39;t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.&quot;&#0160;</p> <p>Ray Bradbury.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Lightfoot</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>ps: additions or corrections are always welcome, (note; the writer has made every effort not to use GQ&#39;s list of words that Caucasians are banned from using) and as always thanks to Ms. Boatman who tried so hard to teach me how to read and write, and Dr. James L. Christian who tried so hard to teach me how to think not what to think.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Sent from my iPhone somewhere in space and time where GQ &#0160;may mean General Quisling !?</p> <p>cc:</p> <p>bcc:</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Part of the List of 21 Books not to read by GQ</p> <p>Bible&#0160;</p> <p>Catch-22</p> <p>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</p> <p>A Farewell to Arms</p> <p>The Catcher in the Rye</p> <p>Gulliver&#39;s Travels</p> <p>Comments may also be sent to: lightfoot.letters@live.com</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b01a5116a6a05970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-02-12T03:10:04Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b01a5116a6a03970cNerw York Times & Censorshiphttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-02-12T03:10:04Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div dir="ltr">&quot;Why liberals won&#39;t be able to win their war on inequality.If the waning years of Barack Obama’s presidency are going to be defined by a liberal crusade against income inequality,.&quot; - NYT</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">If this is not the agenda it is not liberal: Liberalism: Attitude, philosophy, or movement that has as its core concern the development of personal freedom, popular sovereignty, right of rebellion against oppression, free markets, free trade, and the exercise of free will. One of its central theses has long been that a government&#39;s claim to authority is justified only if the government can show those who live under it, that it secures their freedom, concerned to protect their life, liberty and property. The government that governs least governs best. Freedom of conscience, limited government that does not try to re-distribute wealth or goods. Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when government allows every individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself and others.</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">What Mayor Blasio and President Obama and the Democrat Party are selling is more of an authoritarian philosophy. Fascist policy disguised by public education, the Democrat Media and the Rush Limbaughs as liberalism. &#0160;Don&#39;t buy it. It,s bad for your health !? CENSORED Jan. 5, 2014</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">Comments to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div> </div> <p>&#0160;</p> <div dir="ltr">&quot;Why liberals won&#39;t be able to win their war on inequality.If the waning years of Barack Obama’s presidency are going to be defined by a liberal crusade against income inequality,.&quot; - NYT</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">If this is not the agenda it is not liberal: Liberalism: Attitude, philosophy, or movement that has as its core concern the development of personal freedom, popular sovereignty, right of rebellion against oppression, free markets, free trade, and the exercise of free will. One of its central theses has long been that a government&#39;s claim to authority is justified only if the government can show those who live under it, that it secures their freedom, concerned to protect their life, liberty and property. The government that governs least governs best. Freedom of conscience, limited government that does not try to re-distribute wealth or goods. Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when government allows every individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself and others.</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">What Mayor Blasio and President Obama and the Democrat Party are selling is more of an authoritarian philosophy. Fascist policy disguised by public education, the Democrat Media and the Rush Limbaughs as liberalism. &#0160;Don&#39;t buy it. It,s bad for your health !? CENSORED Jan. 5, 2014</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">Comments to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div> </div> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b01a5116a6a02970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2014-02-12T03:10:04Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b01a5116a69fe970cNerw York Times & Censorshiphttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2014-02-12T03:10:04Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div dir="ltr">&quot;Why liberals won&#39;t be able to win their war on inequality.If the waning years of Barack Obama’s presidency are going to be defined by a liberal crusade against income inequality,.&quot; - NYT</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">If this is not the agenda it is not liberal: Liberalism: Attitude, philosophy, or movement that has as its core concern the development of personal freedom, popular sovereignty, right of rebellion against oppression, free markets, free trade, and the exercise of free will. One of its central theses has long been that a government&#39;s claim to authority is justified only if the government can show those who live under it, that it secures their freedom, concerned to protect their life, liberty and property. The government that governs least governs best. Freedom of conscience, limited government that does not try to re-distribute wealth or goods. Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when government allows every individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself and others. What Mayor Blasio and President Obama and the Democrat Party are selling is more of an authoritarian philosophy. Fascist policy disguised by public education, Democrat Media and the Rush Limbaughs as liberalism. &#0160;Don&#39;t buy it. It,s bad for your health !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Loke and Jefferson must be turning over in their graves listening to the biggest lie in our political history..that is &#39;socialist, facist, authoritarian philosophy of the oppressive nanny government&#0160; is the same as liberalism. In the real world there are the opposite !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; CENSORED&#0160; Jan.5, 2014</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">__</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d; background-color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Charges for 106 in Huge Fraud Over Disability (firefighters &amp; police) - NYT. “The brazenness is shocking,” Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, said on Tuesday. </span></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d; background-color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Probably 50 to 80% of the disability claims in California are frauds. The public employees at every level know this and turn a blind eye to the corruption and theft because it keeps their benefits and jobs...especially whose jobs that are created &#39;busy work&#39; which accounts for about 50% of all public jobs. Bottom line you don&#39;t report my stealing and I won&#39;t report your stealing and the beat goes on !? CENSORED&#0160; Jan. 8, 2014.</span></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d; background-color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">There are many examples of the NYT social engineering the news. However, trying to censor and social engineer the comments of their own readers is one reason I think the Times&#0160;is failing financially !?</span></span></span></div> </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Comments to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div> <p><strong></strong></p> <div dir="ltr">&quot;Why liberals won&#39;t be able to win their war on inequality.If the waning years of Barack Obama’s presidency are going to be defined by a liberal crusade against income inequality,.&quot; - NYT</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">If this is not the agenda it is not liberal: Liberalism: Attitude, philosophy, or movement that has as its core concern the development of personal freedom, popular sovereignty, right of rebellion against oppression, free markets, free trade, and the exercise of free will. One of its central theses has long been that a government&#39;s claim to authority is justified only if the government can show those who live under it, that it secures their freedom, concerned to protect their life, liberty and property. The government that governs least governs best. Freedom of conscience, limited government that does not try to re-distribute wealth or goods. Benefits and burdens are distributed justly when government allows every individual the freedom to do what he chooses to do for himself and others. What Mayor Blasio and President Obama and the Democrat Party are selling is more of an authoritarian philosophy. Fascist policy disguised by public education, Democrat Media and the Rush Limbaughs as liberalism. &#0160;Don&#39;t buy it. It,s bad for your health !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Loke and Jefferson must be turning over in their graves listening to the biggest lie in our political history..that is &#39;socialist, facist, authoritarian philosophy of the oppressive nanny government&#0160; is the same as liberalism. In the real world there are the opposite !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; CENSORED&#0160; Jan.5, 2014</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">__</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d; background-color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Charges for 106 in Huge Fraud Over Disability (firefighters &amp; police) - NYT. “The brazenness is shocking,” Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, said on Tuesday. </span></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d; background-color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Probably 50 to 80% of the disability claims in California are frauds. The public employees at every level know this and turn a blind eye to the corruption and theft because it keeps their benefits and jobs...especially whose jobs that are created &#39;busy work&#39; which accounts for about 50% of all public jobs. Bottom line you don&#39;t report my stealing and I won&#39;t report your stealing and the beat goes on !? CENSORED&#0160; Jan. 8, 2014.</span></span></span></div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d; background-color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">There are many examples of the NYT social engineering the news. 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https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-12-22T02:14:14Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b01a3fae2f892970bRAMBLINGS of a MAD MANhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-12-22T02:14:14Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div dir="ltr"> <div>October 24th, 2009</div> <div> <div>Regarding public laws or policy that &#39;rewards or punishes&#39; citizens based on race. Examples would be, special consideration, because of your race, regarding college admissions, business loans, public contracts, public housing loans, public employee promotions, special legal rights or legislation and all things where the benefit or punishment is by the government. In every case, for each person rewarded, another person is punished. Government sanctioned racism is the evil.</div> </div> </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Nov. 1, 2009</div> <div dir="ltr">There are valid concerns regarding Federally mandated health care: US Constitution Article I, Sec. 8 denies the federal government the authority to establish or fund health care. Amendments IX, X - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. It seems clear to me that the Several States, Counties, Cities could fund health and they do for public employees. Amend. X reiterates that no authority exists for the Federal Government to create nor fund health care. And, the Su. Ct. has no authority, to decide or create that, which does not exist. The commerce clause, or the general welfare clause does not give the Federal Government unbridled authority. That position means Article I, Sec. 8. the IX and X Amendments have no applicable meaning.<br />This should be the position of the&#0160; editorial staff. To support the US Constitution !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Jul 10, 2009 <div>&quot; There is no health care crisis. Health insurance, especially HMO&#39;s, and Federal and State Government interjecting &#39;social engineering concepts&#39; into the health care model is the reason care is so expensive. More of the same will not lower costs nor create better care. Simply put; paying more government and HMO workers to push paper around instead of paying doctors, nurses and hospitals directly, &#39;fails.&#39; If you feel that you need a plan buy a catastrophic policy. If you really need help this is the only way to go. Care for your body just like your house. &quot;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>June 22, 2010</div> <div>Republicans will rue the day that they allowed their virulent anti-immigrant wing to grab the controls of the Republican Party. Robert Creamer - Huffington Post. &quot;Go back to Boston ! Go back to Plymouth Rock ! GET OUT!! We are the future. You are old and tired.</div> <div>Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It&#39;s your duty to die...through love of having children we are going to take over.&quot; Augustine Cebada - Brown Berets &quot;We have an aging white America . They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it.&quot; Professor Jose Gutierrez - University of Texas.<br />We are in a low level civil war along the Arizona border now. Because MSM ignores the statements of Mexicans and the border violence does not mean it does not exist.</div> <div>This has nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat, which I am neither. You frame every issue as a political issue. You write as if you live in Plato&#39;s Cave. The shadows you see are not real nor are they important!? <div>&#0160;</div> </div> <div>August 2, 2011</div> <div>&quot;It seems like a good time to take stock of how far women have come in this world. We&#39;ve finally reached our era of great expectatio­ns.&quot; Marlo Thomas - Huff Post. I believe that statements like this are part of a growing problem for women to live-up-to­. To what part of the world is she referring. There is no doubt that women are having great success in the (Western) business world. The opposite side of that coin is they are losing their power, respect and courtesy. Especially young women.</div> </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Nov. 1, 2012</div> <div dir="ltr">Cain Confronts Claim From ’90s of Sexual Harassment - &quot;The incidents, it said, included “conversations allegedly filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature.” - Jim Rutenberg and Michael D. Shear, NYT. &quot;The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomforta­ble.&quot; Huffington Post. I have no way of knowing if this is true or not. Short of some form of physical violence this seems frivolous in nature in the grand scheme of things. In my years of business experience and based on court proceedings both the EEOC and the ADA have become legal forms of &#39;shakedowns&#39; and &#39;blackmail.&#39; And, these news stories have the same stink written all over them !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Nov. 28, 2011</div> <div dir="ltr">The Arab League deepened Syria’s international isolation on Sunday by imposing a battery of economic sanctions meant to sever most trade and investment from the Arab world, an unprecedented step against a member state. NYT. A step in the right direction. A better step would be to leave most all problems to the Arab League and not us or US.</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">June 7, 2012&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; When Gov. Scott Walker moved to strip Wisconsin public employees of their collective-bargaining rights last year, it was clear that he wasn’t doing it to save the state money. NYT. The recall election is and was less about politics and more about public employees making 35 to 55% more in salary and benefits than the private sector doing a like job which has almost every state, county and city bankrupt ( see San Diego and San Jose Lead Way in Pension Cuts, NYT). The real problem is one group of public employees negotiating with another group of public employees (collective-bargaining rights) to the mutual benefit of each other. The public employee is a tax liability vs the private sector job that creates the wealth !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Dec. 26, 2012</div> <div dir="ltr">Years ago the &#39;Fair Minded&#39; civil rights lawyer in LA asked me what was the most important issue we faced as a Nation. I answered Public Education. There was a long pause and then a sheepish laugh and he moved on to another subject. Fast forward to today. Public Education is still the most important issue before US. Because it affects everything else. Karenga would be on the trash heap of history in any reasonably educated society. We would even know Uncle Joe and Uncle Teddy were never liberals, but, Thomas Jefferson was!</div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.minutemanhq.com/fax/" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="343" src="https://blu178.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&amp;canary=dhob8ZURG9pjdzeaPcUEmf1EazJWA4AIOAKN3IWI8sE%3d0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.minutemanhq.com%2fimages%2fmexflag%2ftear_upsidedown_flag.jpg" width="259" /></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Jan. 31, 2013</div> <div dir="ltr">“Most Americans agree that it’s time to fix a system that’s been broken for way too long,” President Obama.&#0160; What does fix the immigration system mean? To the President it means circumventing the legislature and the laws already on the books thru executive order. To the average &#39;Public Employee Democrat Party Complex&#39; it means we will stop calling you a racist if you stop enforcing immigration laws. To The Race (La Raza) it means everything for the race and nothing for those outside the race it. To the Mexicans it means open borders. To Congressman Joe Baca it means; &quot;That&#39;s what the agenda is about. It is about sharing that we increase our numbers at every level. And let me tell you... we can&#39;t go back you know...we are in a Civil War....united latinos will win!&quot;&#0160; To the President of Mexico it means wherever there is a Mexican it is Mexican land.&#0160; To the Military Political Complex of Islam it means wherever there is a Muslim it is Muslim land and a free ticket to ride for the jihadist. To the African it means getting the same non-enforcement of immigration laws as the Mexicans. To reasonable non-partisan minds it means adopting the immigration formulas prior to the changes in 1960&#39;s based on what was in the best interest of the United States&#0160; !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Non Typepad members may comment to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> <div>October 24th, 2009</div> <div> <div>Regarding public laws or policy that &#39;rewards or punishes&#39; citizens based on race. Examples would be, special consideration, because of your race, regarding college admissions, business loans, public contracts, public housing loans, public employee promotions, special legal rights or legislation and all things where the benefit or punishment is by the government. In every case, for each person rewarded, another person is punished. Government sanctioned racism is the evil.</div> </div> </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Nov. 1, 2009</div> <div dir="ltr">There are valid concerns regarding Federally mandated health care: US Constitution Article I, Sec. 8 denies the federal government the authority to establish or fund health care. Amendments IX, X - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. It seems clear to me that the Several States, Counties, Cities could fund health and they do for public employees. Amend. X reiterates that no authority exists for the Federal Government to create nor fund health care. And, the Su. Ct. has no authority, to decide or create that, which does not exist. The commerce clause, or the general welfare clause does not give the Federal Government unbridled authority. That position means Article I, Sec. 8. the IX and X Amendments have no applicable meaning.<br />This should be the position of the&#0160; editorial staff. To support the US Constitution !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Jul 10, 2009 <div>&quot; There is no health care crisis. Health insurance, especially HMO&#39;s, and Federal and State Government interjecting &#39;social engineering concepts&#39; into the health care model is the reason care is so expensive. More of the same will not lower costs nor create better care. Simply put; paying more government and HMO workers to push paper around instead of paying doctors, nurses and hospitals directly, &#39;fails.&#39; If you feel that you need a plan buy a catastrophic policy. If you really need help this is the only way to go. Care for your body just like your house. &quot;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>June 22, 2010</div> <div>Republicans will rue the day that they allowed their virulent anti-immigrant wing to grab the controls of the Republican Party. Robert Creamer - Huffington Post. &quot;Go back to Boston ! Go back to Plymouth Rock ! GET OUT!! We are the future. You are old and tired.</div> <div>Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It&#39;s your duty to die...through love of having children we are going to take over.&quot; Augustine Cebada - Brown Berets &quot;We have an aging white America . They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it.&quot; Professor Jose Gutierrez - University of Texas.<br />We are in a low level civil war along the Arizona border now. Because MSM ignores the statements of Mexicans and the border violence does not mean it does not exist.</div> <div>This has nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat, which I am neither. You frame every issue as a political issue. You write as if you live in Plato&#39;s Cave. The shadows you see are not real nor are they important!? <div>&#0160;</div> </div> <div>August 2, 2011</div> <div>&quot;It seems like a good time to take stock of how far women have come in this world. We&#39;ve finally reached our era of great expectatio­ns.&quot; Marlo Thomas - Huff Post. I believe that statements like this are part of a growing problem for women to live-up-to­. To what part of the world is she referring. There is no doubt that women are having great success in the (Western) business world. The opposite side of that coin is they are losing their power, respect and courtesy. Especially young women.</div> </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Nov. 1, 2012</div> <div dir="ltr">Cain Confronts Claim From ’90s of Sexual Harassment - &quot;The incidents, it said, included “conversations allegedly filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature.” - Jim Rutenberg and Michael D. Shear, NYT. &quot;The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomforta­ble.&quot; Huffington Post. I have no way of knowing if this is true or not. Short of some form of physical violence this seems frivolous in nature in the grand scheme of things. In my years of business experience and based on court proceedings both the EEOC and the ADA have become legal forms of &#39;shakedowns&#39; and &#39;blackmail.&#39; And, these news stories have the same stink written all over them !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Nov. 28, 2011</div> <div dir="ltr">The Arab League deepened Syria’s international isolation on Sunday by imposing a battery of economic sanctions meant to sever most trade and investment from the Arab world, an unprecedented step against a member state. NYT. A step in the right direction. A better step would be to leave most all problems to the Arab League and not us or US.</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">June 7, 2012&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; When Gov. Scott Walker moved to strip Wisconsin public employees of their collective-bargaining rights last year, it was clear that he wasn’t doing it to save the state money. NYT. The recall election is and was less about politics and more about public employees making 35 to 55% more in salary and benefits than the private sector doing a like job which has almost every state, county and city bankrupt ( see San Diego and San Jose Lead Way in Pension Cuts, NYT). The real problem is one group of public employees negotiating with another group of public employees (collective-bargaining rights) to the mutual benefit of each other. The public employee is a tax liability vs the private sector job that creates the wealth !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Dec. 26, 2012</div> <div dir="ltr">Years ago the &#39;Fair Minded&#39; civil rights lawyer in LA asked me what was the most important issue we faced as a Nation. I answered Public Education. There was a long pause and then a sheepish laugh and he moved on to another subject. Fast forward to today. Public Education is still the most important issue before US. Because it affects everything else. Karenga would be on the trash heap of history in any reasonably educated society. We would even know Uncle Joe and Uncle Teddy were never liberals, but, Thomas Jefferson was!</div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.minutemanhq.com/fax/" target="_blank"><img alt="" border="0" height="343" src="https://blu178.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&amp;canary=dhob8ZURG9pjdzeaPcUEmf1EazJWA4AIOAKN3IWI8sE%3d0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.minutemanhq.com%2fimages%2fmexflag%2ftear_upsidedown_flag.jpg" width="259" /></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Jan. 31, 2013</div> <div dir="ltr">“Most Americans agree that it’s time to fix a system that’s been broken for way too long,” President Obama.&#0160; What does fix the immigration system mean? To the President it means circumventing the legislature and the laws already on the books thru executive order. To the average &#39;Public Employee Democrat Party Complex&#39; it means we will stop calling you a racist if you stop enforcing immigration laws. To The Race (La Raza) it means everything for the race and nothing for those outside the race it. To the Mexicans it means open borders. To Congressman Joe Baca it means; &quot;That&#39;s what the agenda is about. It is about sharing that we increase our numbers at every level. And let me tell you... we can&#39;t go back you know...we are in a Civil War....united latinos will win!&quot;&#0160; To the President of Mexico it means wherever there is a Mexican it is Mexican land.&#0160; To the Military Political Complex of Islam it means wherever there is a Muslim it is Muslim land and a free ticket to ride for the jihadist. To the African it means getting the same non-enforcement of immigration laws as the Mexicans. To reasonable non-partisan minds it means adopting the immigration formulas prior to the changes in 1960&#39;s based on what was in the best interest of the United States&#0160; !?</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;</div> <div dir="ltr">Non Typepad members may comment to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b019b035f965e970d lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-12-20T23:22:30Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b019b035f965a970dWill the Feds Bust Santa Claus?http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-12-20T23:22:30Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>(Editor&#39;s Note: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">George Getz</span> wrote &quot;Will the Feds Bust Santa Claus?&quot; in 1999, when he was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Libertarian Party Communications Director</span>. Feel free to forward to friends!)</p> <p><img align="left" alt="" height="333" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8f8d44f1fc10bd074f648a4de/images/santa_jail.1.jpg" style="border: 0px currentColor; width: 300px; height: 333px; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" width="300" /></p> <p>When Santa Claus comes to town, he&#39;d better watch out — because the federal government may be making a list of his crimes (and checking it twice). &quot;Hark the federal agents sing, Santa is guilty of nearly everything,&quot; said former Libertarian Party press secretary George Getz. &quot;The feds know when Santa&#39;s been bad or good — and he&#39;s been bad, for goodness sakes.&quot; Does Santa belong in the slammer? Instead of stuffing stockings, should he be making license plates? Yes, said Getz, if he&#39;s held to the same standards as a typical American. For example: * Every December 25, the illegal immigrant known as Santa Claus crosses the border into the United States without a passport. He carries concealed contraband, which he sneaks into the country in order to avoid inspection by the U.S. Customs Service. And just what&#39;s in all those brightly colored packages tied up with ribbons, anyway? The Drug Czar and Homeland Security want to know. * Look at how this international fugitive gets around: Santa flies in a custom-built sleigh that hasn&#39;t been approved by the FAA. He never files a flight plan. He has no pilot&#39;s license. In the dark of night, he rides the skies with just a tiny bioluminescent red light to guide him — a clear violation of traffic safety regulations. * Pulling Santa&#39;s sleigh: Eight tiny reindeer, a federally protected species being put to hard labor. None of these reindeer have their required shots, and Santa&#39;s never bothered to get these genetically-engineered animals registered and licensed. It&#39;s no wonder: He keeps them penned outside his workplace in a clear violation of zoning laws. * But Crooked Claus the Conniving Capitalist harms more than just animals — he&#39;s hurting hard-working American laborers, too. Isn&#39;t Santa&#39;s Workshop really Santa&#39;s Sweatshop, where his non-union employees don&#39;t make minimum wage and get no holiday pay? Add the fact that OSHA has never inspected the place, and you have a Third-World elf-exploitation operation that only Kathy Lee Gifford could love. * No wonder Santa is able to maintain his monopoly over the toy distribution industry: He&#39;s cornered the Christmas gift market. Santa dares to give away his products for free in a sinister attempt to crush all competition — just like Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer. Antitrust Lawsuit Memo to the feds: Is Santa Claus the Bill Gates of Christmas? The bottom line, said Getz: &quot;It might be tough sledding for Jolly St. Nick this Christmas if the government decides to prosecute him. &quot;We&#39;re just surprised it hasn&#39;t already happened. After all, Santa Claus is everything that politicians aren&#39;t: He&#39;s popular, reliable, and gives us something for nothing every December 25th — instead of taking our money every April 15th.</p> <p>Foward by: Lightfoot Letters - lightfootletters.typepad.com -Comment to: lightfoot.letters@live.com - http://www.facebook.com/lightfoot.lettershttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters</p> <p>(Editor&#39;s Note: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">George Getz</span> wrote &quot;Will the Feds Bust Santa Claus?&quot; in 1999, when he was <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Libertarian Party Communications Director</span>. Feel free to forward to friends!)</p> <p><img align="left" alt="" height="333" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8f8d44f1fc10bd074f648a4de/images/santa_jail.1.jpg" style="border: 0px currentColor; width: 300px; height: 333px; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;" width="300" /></p> <p>When Santa Claus comes to town, he&#39;d better watch out — because the federal government may be making a list of his crimes (and checking it twice). &quot;Hark the federal agents sing, Santa is guilty of nearly everything,&quot; said former Libertarian Party press secretary George Getz. &quot;The feds know when Santa&#39;s been bad or good — and he&#39;s been bad, for goodness sakes.&quot; Does Santa belong in the slammer? Instead of stuffing stockings, should he be making license plates? Yes, said Getz, if he&#39;s held to the same standards as a typical American. For example: * Every December 25, the illegal immigrant known as Santa Claus crosses the border into the United States without a passport. He carries concealed contraband, which he sneaks into the country in order to avoid inspection by the U.S. Customs Service. And just what&#39;s in all those brightly colored packages tied up with ribbons, anyway? The Drug Czar and Homeland Security want to know. * Look at how this international fugitive gets around: Santa flies in a custom-built sleigh that hasn&#39;t been approved by the FAA. He never files a flight plan. He has no pilot&#39;s license. In the dark of night, he rides the skies with just a tiny bioluminescent red light to guide him — a clear violation of traffic safety regulations. * Pulling Santa&#39;s sleigh: Eight tiny reindeer, a federally protected species being put to hard labor. None of these reindeer have their required shots, and Santa&#39;s never bothered to get these genetically-engineered animals registered and licensed. It&#39;s no wonder: He keeps them penned outside his workplace in a clear violation of zoning laws. * But Crooked Claus the Conniving Capitalist harms more than just animals — he&#39;s hurting hard-working American laborers, too. Isn&#39;t Santa&#39;s Workshop really Santa&#39;s Sweatshop, where his non-union employees don&#39;t make minimum wage and get no holiday pay? Add the fact that OSHA has never inspected the place, and you have a Third-World elf-exploitation operation that only Kathy Lee Gifford could love. * No wonder Santa is able to maintain his monopoly over the toy distribution industry: He&#39;s cornered the Christmas gift market. Santa dares to give away his products for free in a sinister attempt to crush all competition — just like Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer. Antitrust Lawsuit Memo to the feds: Is Santa Claus the Bill Gates of Christmas? The bottom line, said Getz: &quot;It might be tough sledding for Jolly St. Nick this Christmas if the government decides to prosecute him. &quot;We&#39;re just surprised it hasn&#39;t already happened. After all, Santa Claus is everything that politicians aren&#39;t: He&#39;s popular, reliable, and gives us something for nothing every December 25th — instead of taking our money every April 15th.</p> <p>Foward by: Lightfoot Letters - lightfootletters.typepad.com -Comment to: lightfoot.letters@live.com - http://www.facebook.com/lightfoot.lettershttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b01910423869c970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-07-08T18:39:58Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b01910423869a970cHuffington Post Censored Commentshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-07-08T18:39:58Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;I believe if you know what the media censors you know their political bias and goals&#0160;!? <div>&#0160; </div> </span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div> <div>&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 23,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &quot;Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators in writing Monday that neither he nor his older brother were in touch with any overseas terror groups,&quot; NBC, Huffington Post.<br />&quot;The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings said he and his brother had acted alone.&quot; NYT.<br />They (Tsarnaev brothers) did not act completly alone. They had the help of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) !? &#0160;<span style="color: #ac193d;"> &#0160;CENSORED</span></div> </div> <div> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;</p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 24,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; After Boston: Why It&#39;s Important That We Keep Asking &#39;Why?&#39; - Arianna Huffington. HP.<br />The Military Political Complex of Islam is what it is, The Religion of the Sword.<br />It was not rational for the National Socialist and it&#39;s not rational for the Military Political Complex of Islam to rid the world of Jews, gays, lesbians and non-believers by imposing the death.<br />After Boston: &#39;Why?&#39; is it that we keep asking WHY !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></p> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;</p> </div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 17, 2013</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims - Huffington Post.<br />Of course they did. And, President Obama did not know Osama was killed untill he saw himself announce it during his press conference !? <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></div> <div>&#0160; <div>Lightfoot Letters 58 Fan.. June 5, 2013</div> <div>&quot; Adding women to our legislative democracy can make Congress work better.&quot; - Founder and chair of the board, EMILY&#39;s List.<br />It would appear that you believe there is an &#39;inherit value&#39; based on sex or skin color which you call progress. Not long ago in our (US) short history this kind of thinking was noted in different terms and it was not progress. You might want to take a new look at history and the meaning of progress !?&#0160; <span style="color: #bf005f;">CENSORED&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #bf005f;">&#0160;</span></div> </div> <div>&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 20, 2013</span></div> <div>&quot;The Washington Post published an explosive story about the Justice Department&#39;s monitoring of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter based in Washington.- Huffington Post.<br />Another instance that the President and his Adminstration (including some Republicans) are much more fascist and authoritarian in nature and philosophy and not socialist. And absolutely not liberal. Not any kind of liberal !?&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;"> <div>&quot;All knowledge is welcome here, but that which serves me now can serve me in no greater measure. So give me not that which I already possess, for it would make you of no use to me or the world! And, what is of no use to me or the world will be destroyed. As, all useless items should be! So Speak!&quot; <br /><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; The Bison King of The Blood Jaguar - by Michael H. Payne.</div> &#0160;</span></div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;I believe if you know what the media censors you know their political bias and goals&#0160;!? <div>&#0160; </div> </span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div> <div>&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 23,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &quot;Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators in writing Monday that neither he nor his older brother were in touch with any overseas terror groups,&quot; NBC, Huffington Post.<br />&quot;The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings said he and his brother had acted alone.&quot; NYT.<br />They (Tsarnaev brothers) did not act completly alone. They had the help of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) !? &#0160;<span style="color: #ac193d;"> &#0160;CENSORED</span></div> </div> <div> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;</p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 24,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; After Boston: Why It&#39;s Important That We Keep Asking &#39;Why?&#39; - Arianna Huffington. HP.<br />The Military Political Complex of Islam is what it is, The Religion of the Sword.<br />It was not rational for the National Socialist and it&#39;s not rational for the Military Political Complex of Islam to rid the world of Jews, gays, lesbians and non-believers by imposing the death.<br />After Boston: &#39;Why?&#39; is it that we keep asking WHY !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></p> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;</p> </div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 17, 2013</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims - Huffington Post.<br />Of course they did. And, President Obama did not know Osama was killed untill he saw himself announce it during his press conference !? <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></div> <div>&#0160; <div>Lightfoot Letters 58 Fan.. June 5, 2013</div> <div>&quot; Adding women to our legislative democracy can make Congress work better.&quot; - Founder and chair of the board, EMILY&#39;s List.<br />It would appear that you believe there is an &#39;inherit value&#39; based on sex or skin color which you call progress. Not long ago in our (US) short history this kind of thinking was noted in different terms and it was not progress. You might want to take a new look at history and the meaning of progress !?&#0160; <span style="color: #bf005f;">CENSORED&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #bf005f;">&#0160;</span></div> </div> <div>&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 20, 2013</span></div> <div>&quot;The Washington Post published an explosive story about the Justice Department&#39;s monitoring of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter based in Washington.- Huffington Post.<br />Another instance that the President and his Adminstration (including some Republicans) are much more fascist and authoritarian in nature and philosophy and not socialist. And absolutely not liberal. Not any kind of liberal !?&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;"> <div>&quot;All knowledge is welcome here, but that which serves me now can serve me in no greater measure. So give me not that which I already possess, for it would make you of no use to me or the world! And, what is of no use to me or the world will be destroyed. As, all useless items should be! So Speak!&quot; <br /><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; The Bison King of The Blood Jaguar - by Michael H. Payne.</div> &#0160;</span></div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b01901e2d5d9f970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-07-08T18:29:08Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b01901e2d5d9b970bHuffington Post Censored Commentshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-07-08T18:29:08Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I</span><span style="color: #000000;"> believe if you know what the media censors you know their political bias !?</span></div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 23,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&quot;Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators in writing Monday that neither he nor his older brother were in touch with any overseas terror groups,&quot; NBC, Huffington Post.<br />&quot;The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings said he and his brother had acted alone.&quot; NYT.<br />They (Tsarnaev brothers) did not act completly alone. They had the help of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) !? &#0160;<span style="color: #ac193d;"> &#0160;CENSORED</span></p> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 24,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; After Boston: Why It&#39;s Important That We Keep Asking &#39;Why?&#39; - Arianna Huffington. HP.<br />The Military Political Complex of Islam is what it is, The Religion of the Sword.<br />It was not rational for the National Socialist and it&#39;s not rational for the Military Political Complex of Islam to rid the world of Jews, gays, lesbians and non-believers by imposing the death.<br />After Boston: &#39;Why?&#39; is it that we keep asking WHY !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></p> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 17, 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span>Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims - Huffington Post.<br />Of course they did. And, President Obama did not know Osama was killed untill he saw himself announce it during his press conference !? <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 20, 2013</span></div> <div>&quot;The Washington Post published an explosive story about the Justice Department&#39;s monitoring of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter based in Washington.- Huffington Post.<br />Another instance that the President and his Adminstration (including some Republicans) are much more fascist and authoritarian in nature and philosophy and not socialist. And absolutely not liberal. Not any kind of liberal !? </div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan.. </span><span style="color: #000000;">June 5</span><span style="color: #000000;">, 2013</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><span style="color: #000000;">&quot; Adding women to our legislative democracy can make Congress work better.&quot; - Founder and chair of the board, EMILY&#39;s List.<br />It would appear that you believe there is an &#39;inherit value&#39; based on sex or skin color which you call progress. Not long ago in our (US) short history this kind of thinking was noted in different terms and it was not progress. You might want to take a new look at history and the meaning of progress !? </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;"><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span></span></div> </span></div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><span style="color: #000000;">&quot;All knowledge is welcome here, but that which serves me now can serve me in no greater measure. So give me not that which I already possess, for it would make you of no use to me or the world! And, what is of no use to me or the world will be destroyed. As, all useless items should be! So Speak!&quot; <br /><br />The Bison King of The Blood Jaguar - by Michael H. Payne.</span></div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160; <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I</span><span style="color: #000000;"> believe if you know what the media censors you know their political bias !?</span></div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div> <p dir="ltr"><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 23,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;&quot;Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators in writing Monday that neither he nor his older brother were in touch with any overseas terror groups,&quot; NBC, Huffington Post.<br />&quot;The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings said he and his brother had acted alone.&quot; NYT.<br />They (Tsarnaev brothers) did not act completly alone. They had the help of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) !? &#0160;<span style="color: #ac193d;"> &#0160;CENSORED</span></p> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">59 Fan </span><span style="color: #000000;">April 24,</span> 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; After Boston: Why It&#39;s Important That We Keep Asking &#39;Why?&#39; - Arianna Huffington. HP.<br />The Military Political Complex of Islam is what it is, The Religion of the Sword.<br />It was not rational for the National Socialist and it&#39;s not rational for the Military Political Complex of Islam to rid the world of Jews, gays, lesbians and non-believers by imposing the death.<br />After Boston: &#39;Why?&#39; is it that we keep asking WHY !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></p> <p dir="ltr">&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 17, 2013&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span>Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims - Huffington Post.<br />Of course they did. And, President Obama did not know Osama was killed untill he saw himself announce it during his press conference !? <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;<span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan &#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="color: #000000;">May 20, 2013</span></div> <div>&quot;The Washington Post published an explosive story about the Justice Department&#39;s monitoring of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter based in Washington.- Huffington Post.<br />Another instance that the President and his Adminstration (including some Republicans) are much more fascist and authoritarian in nature and philosophy and not socialist. And absolutely not liberal. Not any kind of liberal !? </div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">Lightfoot Letters </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">58 Fan.. </span><span style="color: #000000;">June 5</span><span style="color: #000000;">, 2013</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><span style="color: #000000;">&quot; Adding women to our legislative democracy can make Congress work better.&quot; - Founder and chair of the board, EMILY&#39;s List.<br />It would appear that you believe there is an &#39;inherit value&#39; based on sex or skin color which you call progress. Not long ago in our (US) short history this kind of thinking was noted in different terms and it was not progress. You might want to take a new look at history and the meaning of progress !? </span><span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;"><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span></span></div> </span></div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><span style="color: #000000;">&quot;All knowledge is welcome here, but that which serves me now can serve me in no greater measure. So give me not that which I already possess, for it would make you of no use to me or the world! And, what is of no use to me or the world will be destroyed. As, all useless items should be! So Speak!&quot; <br /><br />The Bison King of The Blood Jaguar - by Michael H. Payne.</span></div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160; <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div> </div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> </div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b019101cc0f91970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2013-05-04T23:27:47Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b019101cc0f8d970cNew York Times Censored Commentshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2013-05-04T23:27:47Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">&#0160;</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">&#0160;</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is always interesting to read examples of censorship.&#0160; It is even more interesting to try and figure out why !?</span></div> <div dir="ltr"> .</div> <div dir="ltr"><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca. April 25, 2013</span></span></a><br />&quot;American mosques are central to fighting Muslim extremists.&quot; - NYT.<br /><br />The reality is the mosque is the center of &#39;The Religion of the Sword.&#39;<br />If you are a devote Muslim you are a extremist. If you are not a extremist you are not a devote Muslim.<br /><br /> Islam&#0160; objects to the things that makes us what we are, liberalism and the liberal principles of civil liberties and religious freedom.<br /> <br />&#0160; The media I believe is wrong in the assumption that we do not understand Islam.&#0160; Many of us do understand the practice of Islam.&#0160; The problem;&#0160; Islam, in practice,&#0160; can not and will not co-exist with any other religious, political or economic system unlike their own.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; It is what is taught in the mosque and public education history books, apoligist media coverage that hides the reality in some &#39;politically correct&#39; un-real world.. <br /><br />After Boston: Why It&#39;s Important That We Keep Asking &#39;Why?&#39; - Arianna Huffington. HP. Rational question for a rational perfson ?<br />However, It was not rational for the National Socialist and it&#39;s not rational for the Military Political Complex of Islam to rid the world of Jews, gays, lesbians and non-believers by imposing&#0160; death.<br /><br />After Boston: &#39;Why?&#39; is it that we keep asking WHY !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED by NYT&#39;s and Huffington Post</span></div> <span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> <div> </div> <div><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://blu178.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&amp;canary=kpMWgrSB9jJPvKxOJsGyOXTN7Jg4iLgdjULme7iNwHc%3d0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2fimages%2f2013%2f05%2f04%2fworld%2fprexy%2fprexy-articleLarge.jpg" width="600" /></div> <div>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</div> <div>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; President Obama said Friday at the National Anthropology Museum&#0160; in Mexico</div> <div> .</div> <div><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca.&#0160; May 4, 2013</span></span></a></div> <div>&quot;Obama Tells Mexico Audience of New Era in Relations&quot; - NYT.<br />&#39;Me Casa es su Casa.&#39; - President Obama, president of the United States of America !? <span style="color: #ac193d;"> CENSORED</span></div> <p dir="ltr"><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca. April 26, 2013</span></span></a>Teaching the Lessons Learned in War, to Thwart Attackers at HomeAdvanced Improvised Explosive Device Disposal course. NYT.<br /><br /> &quot;The FBI and other law enforcement agencies were aware of at least one of the Boston terror suspects for several years, and even failed to deport him after a domestic violence conviction in 2009.&quot; 2013 Thomson/Reuters.<br />&quot;The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings said he and his brother had acted alone.&quot; NYT.<br />They (Tsarnaev brothers) did not act completly alone. They had the help of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). <br /><br />All the training in the world will not fix our Federal Government, the media and public education&#0160; that seems to be supporting or at least a sympathizer for the goals of &#39;The Military Political Complex of Islam.&#0160; !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;"> CENSORED</span></p> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca.&#0160; May 2, 2013</span></span></a> <div>&quot;A New York Times/CBS News Poll found broad support for background checks on gun buyers and a path to citizenship for immigrants, but discord about which party would address those issues best.&quot; - NYT.&#0160; <br />&quot;path to citizenship for immigrants,&quot;. - Immigrants currently have a path to citizenship . I do not understand why the New York Times, arguably the most important newspaper in the world, can not be honest and feel the need to lie about such a simple subject as immigration.<br /><br />It is not un-like the lie that Democrats are liberals by the NYT. The employees of the NYT are well educated people which makes it impossible to confuse criminal activity of illegal aliens with immigration nor confuse&#0160; fascist or authoritarian socialist public policy with liberalism. <br />One answer would be the NYT itself lives by an authoritarian philosophy where control and indoctrination is more important that truth. The question is why !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> </div> <div> <div><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca.&#0160; May 2, 2013</span></span></a></div> <div>&quot;Boston Plotters Said to Initially Target July 4 for Attack.&quot; - NYT.<br />July 4th. would make sense because it celebrates everything Islam objects to and is offended by !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;"> CENSORED&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> </div> </div> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></div> </div> </div> <div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">&#0160;</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">&#0160;</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is always interesting to read examples of censorship.&#0160; It is even more interesting to try and figure out why !?</span></div> <div dir="ltr"> .</div> <div dir="ltr"><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca. April 25, 2013</span></span></a><br />&quot;American mosques are central to fighting Muslim extremists.&quot; - NYT.<br /><br />The reality is the mosque is the center of &#39;The Religion of the Sword.&#39;<br />If you are a devote Muslim you are a extremist. If you are not a extremist you are not a devote Muslim.<br /><br /> Islam&#0160; objects to the things that makes us what we are, liberalism and the liberal principles of civil liberties and religious freedom.<br /> <br />&#0160; The media I believe is wrong in the assumption that we do not understand Islam.&#0160; Many of us do understand the practice of Islam.&#0160; The problem;&#0160; Islam, in practice,&#0160; can not and will not co-exist with any other religious, political or economic system unlike their own.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; It is what is taught in the mosque and public education history books, apoligist media coverage that hides the reality in some &#39;politically correct&#39; un-real world.. <br /><br />After Boston: Why It&#39;s Important That We Keep Asking &#39;Why?&#39; - Arianna Huffington. HP. Rational question for a rational perfson ?<br />However, It was not rational for the National Socialist and it&#39;s not rational for the Military Political Complex of Islam to rid the world of Jews, gays, lesbians and non-believers by imposing&#0160; death.<br /><br />After Boston: &#39;Why?&#39; is it that we keep asking WHY !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED by NYT&#39;s and Huffington Post</span></div> <span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> <div> </div> <div><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://blu178.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&amp;canary=kpMWgrSB9jJPvKxOJsGyOXTN7Jg4iLgdjULme7iNwHc%3d0&amp;url=http%3a%2f%2fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2fimages%2f2013%2f05%2f04%2fworld%2fprexy%2fprexy-articleLarge.jpg" width="600" /></div> <div>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images</div> <div>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; President Obama said Friday at the National Anthropology Museum&#0160; in Mexico</div> <div> .</div> <div><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca.&#0160; May 4, 2013</span></span></a></div> <div>&quot;Obama Tells Mexico Audience of New Era in Relations&quot; - NYT.<br />&#39;Me Casa es su Casa.&#39; - President Obama, president of the United States of America !? <span style="color: #ac193d;"> CENSORED</span></div> <p dir="ltr"><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca. April 26, 2013</span></span></a>Teaching the Lessons Learned in War, to Thwart Attackers at HomeAdvanced Improvised Explosive Device Disposal course. NYT.<br /><br /> &quot;The FBI and other law enforcement agencies were aware of at least one of the Boston terror suspects for several years, and even failed to deport him after a domestic violence conviction in 2009.&quot; 2013 Thomson/Reuters.<br />&quot;The surviving suspect in the marathon bombings said he and his brother had acted alone.&quot; NYT.<br />They (Tsarnaev brothers) did not act completly alone. They had the help of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). <br /><br />All the training in the world will not fix our Federal Government, the media and public education&#0160; that seems to be supporting or at least a sympathizer for the goals of &#39;The Military Political Complex of Islam.&#0160; !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;"> CENSORED</span></p> <div dir="ltr"><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca.&#0160; May 2, 2013</span></span></a> <div>&quot;A New York Times/CBS News Poll found broad support for background checks on gun buyers and a path to citizenship for immigrants, but discord about which party would address those issues best.&quot; - NYT.&#0160; <br />&quot;path to citizenship for immigrants,&quot;. - Immigrants currently have a path to citizenship . I do not understand why the New York Times, arguably the most important newspaper in the world, can not be honest and feel the need to lie about such a simple subject as immigration.<br /><br />It is not un-like the lie that Democrats are liberals by the NYT. The employees of the NYT are well educated people which makes it impossible to confuse criminal activity of illegal aliens with immigration nor confuse&#0160; fascist or authoritarian socialist public policy with liberalism. <br />One answer would be the NYT itself lives by an authoritarian philosophy where control and indoctrination is more important that truth. The question is why !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;">CENSORED</span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> </div> <div> <div><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">Lightfoot Letters<span style="color: #000000;"> Newport Beach,Ca.&#0160; May 2, 2013</span></span></a></div> <div>&quot;Boston Plotters Said to Initially Target July 4 for Attack.&quot; - NYT.<br />July 4th. would make sense because it celebrates everything Islam objects to and is offended by !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #ac193d;"> CENSORED&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span></div> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span> </div> </div> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <div><span style="color: #ac193d;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></div> </div> </div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b017c34be47ee970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2012-12-18T16:38:14Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b017c34be47e7970bThe SANDY HOOK Incidenthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2012-12-18T16:38:14Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269Comments to the:&#0160; New York Times - Alaska Daily News - Huffington Post - Red State et al.<br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="https://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/269896/slide_269896_1889412_free.jpg?1355707582345" style="width: 548px; height: 378.87px; margin-top: 17.06px;" />&#0160;<span style="font-size: 8pt;">AP Photo</span><br /> <div dir="ltr">Gun Control Debate Simmers After Sandy Hook Massacre - Huffington Post. The debate should be the effect of the social engineering policies of the public employees towards to the kids in public education. Second, the news&#0160; media glorifies Sandy Hook incidents and what effect it has on those with genetic mental issues. Third, Hollywood and the gaming industry also glorifies and promotes death as an accepted way of life and what effect it has on those with genetic mental issues. Question; Is the violence of young males created by the policies of public employees at all levels of government, especially public education, or is it a genetic innate trait. Are the ones like the news media, counselors, psychologist, teachers etc.,&#0160; who are part of the problem, the same ones that have answers for problems they themselves have created. It would seem they have to stop helping before our public schools become nothing more than lock down housing for our kids and young adults !?</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">I am not one to blame the car and not the driver. But, you missed the question. Was the suicidal killer born that way or did we as a society make him that way, especially if he was already having issues of self worth. Possibly you do&#0160; not&#0160; remember a time when there were no metal detectors, there were no police officers assigned to each campus, there was no diversity training that forces young males to think and act alike or be shunned, there was no separatist segregation groups like the Mexican Student Union or the Black Student Union etc., nor segrationist studies based on skin color or sex, there were no teachers forcing little boys at an early age to act more like little girls, no teachers forcing young boys to accept gay sex or any other life style that they could not accept, public employees did not demean you or your faith, there were no teachers unions that stop any legislation that makes it easy to get rid of teachers that sexually assault and molest their young wards and the list of political correctness and public employee corruption is endless. Are these some of the reasons for some young males to explode at some point. I do not know. But, the more political correctness we get the more violence we get. That is a fact. The President and The Public Employee Democrat Party Complex, from the President and Congress to your local school board,&#0160; should at least consider their own policies must be part of the problem !?</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">First Responder;&#0160; The police officer is almost never the the first responder. They are almost always second and sometimes never. It is almost always the private citizen that is the first responder in any crisis situation.</div> <div dir="ltr">That was the case at Sandy Hook. If the news reports are correct it was the principal that was the first responder. And, she was ill equipped to do the job that was urgently needed and required. The young child that said he knew Karate was better equipped to be the first responder that any of the adults who were there to protect their young wards. I do not have answers for Sandy Hook but, I&#39;m sure cowering in the corner or hiding in a closet is not the answer that is needed and required !?</div> Comments to the:&#0160; New York Times - Alaska Daily News - Huffington Post - Red State et al.<br /> <br /> <img alt="" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/269896/slide_269896_1889412_free.jpg?1355707582345" style="width: 548px; height: 378.87px; margin-top: 17.06px;" />&#0160;<span style="font-size: 8pt;">AP Photo</span><br /> <div dir="ltr">Gun Control Debate Simmers After Sandy Hook Massacre - Huffington Post. The debate should be the effect of the social engineering policies of the public employees towards to the kids in public education. Second, the news&#0160; media glorifies Sandy Hook incidents and what effect it has on those with genetic mental issues. Third, Hollywood and the gaming industry also glorifies and promotes death as an accepted way of life and what effect it has on those with genetic mental issues. Question; Is the violence of young males created by the policies of public employees at all levels of government, especially public education, or is it a genetic innate trait. Are the ones like the news media, counselors, psychologist, teachers etc.,&#0160; who are part of the problem, the same ones that have answers for problems they themselves have created. It would seem they have to stop helping before our public schools become nothing more than lock down housing for our kids and young adults !?</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">I am not one to blame the car and not the driver. But, you missed the question. Was the suicidal killer born that way or did we as a society make him that way, especially if he was already having issues of self worth. Possibly you do&#0160; not&#0160; remember a time when there were no metal detectors, there were no police officers assigned to each campus, there was no diversity training that forces young males to think and act alike or be shunned, there was no separatist segregation groups like the Mexican Student Union or the Black Student Union etc., nor segrationist studies based on skin color or sex, there were no teachers forcing little boys at an early age to act more like little girls, no teachers forcing young boys to accept gay sex or any other life style that they could not accept, public employees did not demean you or your faith, there were no teachers unions that stop any legislation that makes it easy to get rid of teachers that sexually assault and molest their young wards and the list of political correctness and public employee corruption is endless. Are these some of the reasons for some young males to explode at some point. I do not know. But, the more political correctness we get the more violence we get. That is a fact. The President and The Public Employee Democrat Party Complex, from the President and Congress to your local school board,&#0160; should at least consider their own policies must be part of the problem !?</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">First Responder;&#0160; The police officer is almost never the the first responder. They are almost always second and sometimes never. It is almost always the private citizen that is the first responder in any crisis situation.</div> <div dir="ltr">That was the case at Sandy Hook. If the news reports are correct it was the principal that was the first responder. And, she was ill equipped to do the job that was urgently needed and required. The young child that said he knew Karate was better equipped to be the first responder that any of the adults who were there to protect their young wards. I do not have answers for Sandy Hook but, I&#39;m sure cowering in the corner or hiding in a closet is not the answer that is needed and required !?</div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b017ee3d362e4970d lightfootletters posted something https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2012-09-28T03:21:33Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b017ee3d362e3970dhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment2012-09-28T03:21:33Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b017d3c324c89970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2012-09-20T21:30:49Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b017d3c324c84970cThemes from the DNC - 2012http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2012-09-20T21:30:49Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269He (President Obama) repeatedly returned to the theme that now is not the time to undo the progress made. - Huffington Post. (President&#0160; President Obama conceded the country&#39;s difficulties, but argued that it would &quot;take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.&quot; - NYT. The President is correct. The current problems began with FDR. It will take years because the President is FDR like and proposes more of the same with more of an authoritarian philosophy. His policy will add years to the problem began by FDR and has continued un-abated except for short periods of time !? <div dir="ltr">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; _________________</div> <div dir="ltr">He (President Obama) repeatedly returned to the theme that now is not the time to undo the progress made. - Huffington Post. Themes from the DNC. President Clinton remarked about those &#39;pesky regulations&#39; the Republicans want to repeal. In fact it was President Clinton that signed and lobbied for the legislation that reapealed the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that allowed the banks to become involved in the risky products created by Wall Street. President Clinton publicly declared, &quot;The Glass-Steagall Act is no longer relevant&quot;&#0160;&#0160; Also, it was the Democrat Party (not the rank and file Democrats) that pushed the banks into making risky loans that created the risky products,&#0160; that led to the housing meltdown. And, it would appear the policy at Fannie and Freddie are still pushing the same policy !? </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; __________________</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">He (President Obama) repeatedly returned to the theme that now is not the time to undo the progress made. - Huffington Post. Themes from the DNC. The Democrat leadership and those speaking for the Democrat Party claim Republicans only care about the rich. The reality is much different. Republicans give more of the person time to charity..much more. Republicans give more of their personal income to charity than Democrats...much more. The Republicans donate their own blood more than Democrats...much more. It is estimated that if Democrats would donate blood the blood supply would increase 40 to 45% overnight. Yes, the reality is much different than professed by the leadership and those speaking for the Democrat Party !?</div> <div dir="ltr">Added Sept.22, 2012</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; __________________</div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">I am not a Republican but, I have known&#0160;many Republicans over the years and none were rich. Mostly farmers, loggers and military. I worked at a major hospital for almost 20 years and every blood drive most&#0160;Democrats were a no-show year after year, especially the men. This gives some support to the stats by Larry Elder. In addition to the links below check the Feds own stats regarding this subject. </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?source=science20.com&amp;_r=moc.semityn.www" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?source=science20.com&amp;_r=moc.semityn.www</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://philanthropy.com/section/How-America-Gives/621/" target="_blank">http://philanthropy.com/section/How-America-Gives/621/</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012712-599290-democrats-like-giving-money-from-others.htm" target="_blank">http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012712-599290-democrats-like-giving-money-from-others.htm</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> </div> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Private Comments to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></p> He (President Obama) repeatedly returned to the theme that now is not the time to undo the progress made. - Huffington Post. (President&#0160; President Obama conceded the country&#39;s difficulties, but argued that it would &quot;take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.&quot; - NYT. The President is correct. The current problems began with FDR. It will take years because the President is FDR like and proposes more of the same with more of an authoritarian philosophy. His policy will add years to the problem began by FDR and has continued un-abated except for short periods of time !? <div dir="ltr">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; _________________</div> <div dir="ltr">He (President Obama) repeatedly returned to the theme that now is not the time to undo the progress made. - Huffington Post. Themes from the DNC. President Clinton remarked about those &#39;pesky regulations&#39; the Republicans want to repeal. In fact it was President Clinton that signed and lobbied for the legislation that reapealed the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that allowed the banks to become involved in the risky products created by Wall Street. President Clinton publicly declared, &quot;The Glass-Steagall Act is no longer relevant&quot;&#0160;&#0160; Also, it was the Democrat Party (not the rank and file Democrats) that pushed the banks into making risky loans that created the risky products,&#0160; that led to the housing meltdown. And, it would appear the policy at Fannie and Freddie are still pushing the same policy !? </div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; __________________</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">He (President Obama) repeatedly returned to the theme that now is not the time to undo the progress made. - Huffington Post. Themes from the DNC. The Democrat leadership and those speaking for the Democrat Party claim Republicans only care about the rich. The reality is much different. Republicans give more of the person time to charity..much more. Republicans give more of their personal income to charity than Democrats...much more. The Republicans donate their own blood more than Democrats...much more. It is estimated that if Democrats would donate blood the blood supply would increase 40 to 45% overnight. Yes, the reality is much different than professed by the leadership and those speaking for the Democrat Party !?</div> <div dir="ltr">Added Sept.22, 2012</div> <div dir="ltr">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; __________________</div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">I am not a Republican but, I have known&#0160;many Republicans over the years and none were rich. Mostly farmers, loggers and military. I worked at a major hospital for almost 20 years and every blood drive most&#0160;Democrats were a no-show year after year, especially the men. This gives some support to the stats by Larry Elder. In addition to the links below check the Feds own stats regarding this subject. </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?source=science20.com&amp;_r=moc.semityn.www" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html?source=science20.com&amp;_r=moc.semityn.www</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://philanthropy.com/section/How-America-Gives/621/" target="_blank">http://philanthropy.com/section/How-America-Gives/621/</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012712-599290-democrats-like-giving-money-from-others.htm" target="_blank">http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/012712-599290-democrats-like-giving-money-from-others.htm</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> </div> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Private Comments to: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0167688060b2970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2012-07-14T18:04:56Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0167688060af970bThe OBAMA CHRONICLEShttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2012-07-14T18:04:56Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><br />To AYER is to be WRIGHT<br /> <br /><img alt="barack-is-hope.jpg" height="300" src="https://blogs.westword.com/demver/barack-is-hope.jpg" width="200" /> Poster by Shepard Fairey -Arrested on two outstanding warrants Feb. 7, 2009 </span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">July 14,&#0160; 2010</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona&#39;s immigration law.&quot; The President keeps repeating over and over again immigrants need a &#39;pathway to citizenship.&#39; This is just a lie at worst and mis-leading at best.. The entire world has a pathway to citizenship. Yes, to follow the rule of law does take longer. But, if you are the right color..no wait. </span><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But, I do agree with the President on one thing.&#0160; We do need some legal immigration reform. We need to rescind the 1965 immigration acts. And, simply re-adopt what was already in place prior to 1965. (From the Obama Chronicles 2009).</span></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 27, 2012</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;Arizona&#0160; may not pursue policies that undermine federal law.”&#0160; NYT. - &quot;As the Supreme Court upheld a central provision of Arizona&#39;s controversial immigration law on Monday&quot; - Huffington Post. I think you both the Times and Post have it backwards. It is not controversial to enforce the law as Arizona is a State with all the rights thereof. What is controversial is Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and President Obama subverting the laws of the State and the Several States by executive order. Both actions by the Police Chief and President clearly illegal actions by public employees. To borrow a phrase from Pogo; We have met the enemy and the enemy is the public employees at every level of government !? (From NYT and Huffington Post comments).</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> <div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">July 6, 2012</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">George Orwell begins his book &#39;1984&#39; with &#39;It was bright cold day in April and all the clocks were striking thirteen&#39;. Right away you know you are in different world.&quot; The Obama World. </span> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font: 10pt/normal sans-serif; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/07/06/2534009/obama-makes-us-cross-a-dangerous.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy</span></div> </div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That&#39;s how I find myself after reading a New York Times front page article titled &quot;Secret &#39;Kill List&#39; Proves a Test of Obama&#39;s Principles and Will.&quot; It reveals how President Obama keeps a list of terror suspects and personally approves their elimination with unmanned predator drones. Jeff Pantages Anchorage, Alaska.</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;We are crossing a dangerous line here&#0160; &quot;because it allows the president to kill people, including United States citizens when President Obama keeps a list of terror suspects and personally approves their elimination with unmanned predator drones.&quot;&#0160; Hina Shamzi - ACLU.</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And,&#0160; Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and President Obama subverting Federal Law and the laws of the State with a &#39;selective system&#39; of law enforcement regarding the human and drug traffic, and the Several States by executive order. Both actions by the Police Chief and President clearly illegal actions by public employees. To borrow a phrase from Pogo; We have met the enemy and the enemy is the public employees at every level of government !?</span></div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope and change that we would not become what we have become. That is, a legal system that is sound with very un-sound public employees in charge. A legal system that set US apart from the Banana Republics of the world. Now we have joined the rest&#0160; of the bananas with a &#39;selective system&#39; of law enforcement. Charlie Beck insists that Mexicans legal or illegal,do not have to follow laws of the State of California. President Obama insists that Mexicans do not have to follow the laws of the Several States or the Federal Government. Instead Chief (and I use that term loosely) Charlie Beck wants to waive all fines and fees related to illegal conduct of illegal Mexicans.&#0160; President wants to wave all fines, penalties and deportation of illegal Mexicans, give them jobs and quash the Several States from enforcing their own laws regarding the illegal traffic of humans beings&#0160; and drugs.&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Charlie Beck has misplaced his handbook on State law which forbids him from legislating thru executive order. President Obama (or the Su, Ct,) was never taught there is that pesky word state in the State of Arizona and the Several States with all the rights thereof. They both have forgotten we already had our Civil War and we don&#39;t need another one. Yet, that seems to be the direction we are headed under the leadership of President Obama and the Department of Justice.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes we have come a long way on &#39;Hope and Change.&#39;&#0160; Hope was a political bumper sticker and the change was a more corrupt legal system with our very own &#39;show trails&#39; against the Several States just like the rest of the bananas. The ADA and the EEOC are legal&#0160; rackets, to seperate you from your property and money, that makes the Mafia envious, that they did not think of the unlimited scams available to&#0160; public employees. All done within the legal framework without legal authority especially when based on skin color or sex.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This President and Administration, thru ignorance and by design, has divided the nation more along cultural and racial lines than any other president or administration in history&#0160;using the legal system as their big stick to dismantle our republican form of government and laws therein !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9th. posting of the Obama Chronicles.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;ref: Alaska Daily News - New York Times - Los Angeles Times.&#0160;&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters - lightfootletters.typepad.com -Comment to&#0160;<a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a> - </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters</a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;<a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span></div> </div> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><br />To AYER is to be WRIGHT<br /> <br /><img alt="barack-is-hope.jpg" height="300" src="http://blogs.westword.com/demver/barack-is-hope.jpg" width="200" /> Poster by Shepard Fairey -Arrested on two outstanding warrants Feb. 7, 2009 </span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">July 14,&#0160; 2010</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona&#39;s immigration law.&quot; The President keeps repeating over and over again immigrants need a &#39;pathway to citizenship.&#39; This is just a lie at worst and mis-leading at best.. The entire world has a pathway to citizenship. Yes, to follow the rule of law does take longer. But, if you are the right color..no wait. </span><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But, I do agree with the President on one thing.&#0160; We do need some legal immigration reform. We need to rescind the 1965 immigration acts. And, simply re-adopt what was already in place prior to 1965. (From the Obama Chronicles 2009).</span></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 27, 2012</span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;Arizona&#0160; may not pursue policies that undermine federal law.”&#0160; NYT. - &quot;As the Supreme Court upheld a central provision of Arizona&#39;s controversial immigration law on Monday&quot; - Huffington Post. I think you both the Times and Post have it backwards. It is not controversial to enforce the law as Arizona is a State with all the rights thereof. What is controversial is Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and President Obama subverting the laws of the State and the Several States by executive order. Both actions by the Police Chief and President clearly illegal actions by public employees. To borrow a phrase from Pogo; We have met the enemy and the enemy is the public employees at every level of government !? (From NYT and Huffington Post comments).</span></p> <p dir="ltr"> <div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">July 6, 2012</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">George Orwell begins his book &#39;1984&#39; with &#39;It was bright cold day in April and all the clocks were striking thirteen&#39;. Right away you know you are in different world.&quot; The Obama World. </span> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font: 10pt/normal sans-serif; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/07/06/2534009/obama-makes-us-cross-a-dangerous.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy</span></div> </div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That&#39;s how I find myself after reading a New York Times front page article titled &quot;Secret &#39;Kill List&#39; Proves a Test of Obama&#39;s Principles and Will.&quot; It reveals how President Obama keeps a list of terror suspects and personally approves their elimination with unmanned predator drones. Jeff Pantages Anchorage, Alaska.</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;We are crossing a dangerous line here&#0160; &quot;because it allows the president to kill people, including United States citizens when President Obama keeps a list of terror suspects and personally approves their elimination with unmanned predator drones.&quot;&#0160; Hina Shamzi - ACLU.</span></div> <div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And,&#0160; Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and President Obama subverting Federal Law and the laws of the State with a &#39;selective system&#39; of law enforcement regarding the human and drug traffic, and the Several States by executive order. Both actions by the Police Chief and President clearly illegal actions by public employees. To borrow a phrase from Pogo; We have met the enemy and the enemy is the public employees at every level of government !?</span></div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope and change that we would not become what we have become. That is, a legal system that is sound with very un-sound public employees in charge. A legal system that set US apart from the Banana Republics of the world. Now we have joined the rest&#0160; of the bananas with a &#39;selective system&#39; of law enforcement. Charlie Beck insists that Mexicans legal or illegal,do not have to follow laws of the State of California. President Obama insists that Mexicans do not have to follow the laws of the Several States or the Federal Government. Instead Chief (and I use that term loosely) Charlie Beck wants to waive all fines and fees related to illegal conduct of illegal Mexicans.&#0160; President wants to wave all fines, penalties and deportation of illegal Mexicans, give them jobs and quash the Several States from enforcing their own laws regarding the illegal traffic of humans beings&#0160; and drugs.&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Charlie Beck has misplaced his handbook on State law which forbids him from legislating thru executive order. President Obama (or the Su, Ct,) was never taught there is that pesky word state in the State of Arizona and the Several States with all the rights thereof. They both have forgotten we already had our Civil War and we don&#39;t need another one. Yet, that seems to be the direction we are headed under the leadership of President Obama and the Department of Justice.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes we have come a long way on &#39;Hope and Change.&#39;&#0160; Hope was a political bumper sticker and the change was a more corrupt legal system with our very own &#39;show trails&#39; against the Several States just like the rest of the bananas. The ADA and the EEOC are legal&#0160; rackets, to seperate you from your property and money, that makes the Mafia envious, that they did not think of the unlimited scams available to&#0160; public employees. All done within the legal framework without legal authority especially when based on skin color or sex.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This President and Administration, thru ignorance and by design, has divided the nation more along cultural and racial lines than any other president or administration in history&#0160;using the legal system as their big stick to dismantle our republican form of government and laws therein !?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">9th. posting of the Obama Chronicles.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;ref: Alaska Daily News - New York Times - Los Angeles Times.&#0160;&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters - lightfootletters.typepad.com -Comment to&#0160;<a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a> - </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters</a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;<a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span></div> </div> </p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b016765e80a90970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2012-04-30T03:39:43Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b016765e80a8a970bSmoking Restrictions are Really a Smoke Screenhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2012-04-30T03:39:42Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>&quot;<a href="http://www.dailypilot.com/news/opinion/tn-dpt-0717-editorial-20110715%2c0%2c3532006.story" target="_blank">Editorial: Newport should ban smoking in parks,</a> (Editorial, July 17): &quot;We generally cringe when government noses its way into civil liberties.&quot; <br />This is the best editorial I have ever read in the Daily Pilot or its big brother, the Los Angeles Times. The editorial staff should have stopped after the word &quot;liberties.&quot; Because it quickly became clear the editorial did not mean a word it said about government restrictions on citizens&#39; rights and privileges. <br />What the editorial was really saying was more tax and restrictions.</p> <div>The editorial fell to the lowest level possible by arguing Newport Beach should ban smoking in parks because we must do it for the little kids. If this had any merit, anybody older than 50 would be dead or in the hospital in the critical care ward. And smoke would not rise, but sink, at least in the minds of the editorial writers, authoritarian control fanatics, City Council and the ACLU.</div> <p>The reality is when you demonize a group like people who use tobacco products in such a public way, it is the signal for the public employees to grab the tax money and continue the restrictions of rights and privilege to justify their actions.</p> <p>The Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization of 2009 has raised tax almost 300% on tobacco products. These taxes are aimed right at the lower middle class and the working poor. <br />To keep the scam going the public employees and their supporters must keep thinking up new ways to demonize the user of tobacco products to continue the justification of the taxes that primarily support those same public employees at all levels. Once again, what is supposed to be for the little kids is really about the public employees, their supporters and the growing army of control fanatics.</p> <p>It is never acceptable to enhance the rights and privilege of one citizen by restricting the rights and privilege of another citizen. And that includes the little kids because they will grow up to be adults without the same rights and privilege we have today. We have a responsibility more important to little kids than just blowing smoke. That is to see this does not happen. That, future generations have more personal freedoms and liberties, not less!</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p><a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>published July 29 - Dailly Pilot - LA Times Group......</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&quot;<a href="http://www.dailypilot.com/news/opinion/tn-dpt-0717-editorial-20110715%2c0%2c3532006.story" target="_blank">Editorial: Newport should ban smoking in parks,</a> (Editorial, July 17): &quot;We generally cringe when government noses its way into civil liberties.&quot; <br />This is the best editorial I have ever read in the Daily Pilot or its big brother, the Los Angeles Times. The editorial staff should have stopped after the word &quot;liberties.&quot; Because it quickly became clear the editorial did not mean a word it said about government restrictions on citizens&#39; rights and privileges. <br />What the editorial was really saying was more tax and restrictions.</p> <div>The editorial fell to the lowest level possible by arguing Newport Beach should ban smoking in parks because we must do it for the little kids. If this had any merit, anybody older than 50 would be dead or in the hospital in the critical care ward. And smoke would not rise, but sink, at least in the minds of the editorial writers, authoritarian control fanatics, City Council and the ACLU.</div> <p>The reality is when you demonize a group like people who use tobacco products in such a public way, it is the signal for the public employees to grab the tax money and continue the restrictions of rights and privilege to justify their actions.</p> <p>The Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization of 2009 has raised tax almost 300% on tobacco products. These taxes are aimed right at the lower middle class and the working poor. <br />To keep the scam going the public employees and their supporters must keep thinking up new ways to demonize the user of tobacco products to continue the justification of the taxes that primarily support those same public employees at all levels. Once again, what is supposed to be for the little kids is really about the public employees, their supporters and the growing army of control fanatics.</p> <p>It is never acceptable to enhance the rights and privilege of one citizen by restricting the rights and privilege of another citizen. And that includes the little kids because they will grow up to be adults without the same rights and privilege we have today. We have a responsibility more important to little kids than just blowing smoke. That is to see this does not happen. That, future generations have more personal freedoms and liberties, not less!</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p><a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>published July 29 - Dailly Pilot - LA Times Group......</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b015392723aa7970b lightfootletters posted something https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-10-20T04:13:00Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a00e5537d78eb8834015392723aa6970bhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment2011-10-20T04:13:00Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269Consequential Knowledge 2tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a00e5537d78eb88340133f460168a970bJudgeRighthttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0154364603fd970c lightfootletters added 'Consequential Knowledge 2' as a favorite https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/favorite2011-10-20T04:10:34Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a00e5537d78eb88340153919b8794970bConsequential Knowledge 2http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-09-14T22:29:45Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p00e5537d78eb8834JudgeRighthttp://profile.typepad.com/judgeright<p>Some time ago <a href="http://judgeright.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/consequential-knowledge.html" target="_blank" title="Consequential Knowledge 1">I wrote a piece</a> to challenge a blog neighbor&#39;s unjustified reliance on expert opinion and centralized social engineering. &#0160;Today I want to revisit the term that titled that post. &#0160;If the people are unwilling or unable to learn history and keep up on current events then the culture is doomed to repeat history&#39;s mistakes. &#0160;Thomas Sowell coined the term &#39;Consequential Knowledge&#39; and defines it; knowledge by virtue of it&#39;s presence or absence has serious consequences. &#0160;</p> <p>In very recent times and in our own culture we have dramatic evidence of the failures of centralized planning and the charismatic strong man who enforces fairness on everyone else. &#0160;This is a reprint of an article I found floating around online. &#0160;There were no sources given except those in the body of the text and I suspect it floated around a lot of email boxes before it landed on the blogs and message boards. &#0160;I will finish my thoughts after the letter.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0JbGxIR8JTk?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>&#0160;</p> <p>(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)<br /><br />DETROIT<br /><br />By Frosty Wooldridge<br /><br />For 15 years, from the mid 1970&#39;s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!<br /><br />Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!<br /><br />With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.<br /><br />A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson&#39;s &#39;Great Society&#39; flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.<br /><br />Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, &quot;I am the MFIC.&quot; The IC meant &quot;in charge&quot;.<br /><br />You can figure out the rest Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.<br /><br />As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.<br /><br />Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city for the free government hand outs, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.<br /><br />As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America ..<br /><br />Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC&#39;s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America .. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.<br /><br />Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine&#39;s October 4, 2009, &quot;The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again,&quot; I choked on the writer&#39;s description of what happened. &quot;If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we&#39;d know a lot more about it,&quot; said Daniel Okrent. &quot;If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we&#39;d see it on the evening news every night.&quot; Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.<br /><br />But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.<br /><br />Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making.&quot;<br /><br />As Coleman Young&#39;s corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city&#39;s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit .<br /><br />&quot;By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit &#39;s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services,&quot; Okrent said. &quot;The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers&#39; union to reject a philanthropist&#39;s offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That&#39;s worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.<br /><br />At the end of Okrent&#39;s report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, &quot;That&#39;s because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city&#39;s collapse, it&#39;s also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.<br /><br />If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can&#39;t find a way to get up, what does that say about America’s future?&quot;<br /><br />As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner&#39;s book,&quot;$20 Per Gallon&quot;, the auto industry won&#39;t come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.<br /><br />You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain , London , England , and Paris , France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.<br /><br />I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON&#39;T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FORIEGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN, THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.<br /><br />IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I&#39;M SORRY, I DON&#39;T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT ?<br /><br />&quot;Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.&quot; -- Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />IF YOU LOVE AMERICA , PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG…..<br /><br />&quot;You cannot help the poor&#0160;<br />by destroying the rich.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot strengthen the weak&#0160;<br />by weakening the strong.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot bring about prosperity&#0160;<br />by discouraging thrift.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot lift the wage earner up&#0160;<br />by pulling the wage payer down.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot further the brotherhood of man&#0160;<br />by inciting class hatred.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot build character and courage&#0160;<br />by taking away people&#39;s initiative and independence.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot help people permanently&#0160;<br />by doing for them, what they could and&#0160;<br />should do for themselves.&quot;<br /><br /><br />Abraham Lincoln</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>It is incumbent upon each generation to pass on the consequential knowledge they have inherited and picked up along life&#39;s journey. &#0160;It is incumbent upon each generation to seek out the best information available on current events and to require our progeny study history to compare our cultural well being. &#0160;It is incumbent upon each generaton to inculcate the work ethic, ettiquette, and other values they have learned and inherited from their forebears. &#0160;Everything Liberalism demands or envisions of/for our culture is anathema to that purpose. &#0160;The letter above is anecdotal evidence toward that fact. &#0160;The city and state are not anecdotal and neither are the other Liberal strongholds where the records of long held, long policied, long consequence reveal hampered cultural and economic well-being if not outright civic disaster. &#0160;I invite you to compare Conservative strongholds and their records on cultural and economic health. &#0160;Please get this consequential information into as many young minds and hearts as you possibly can.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1hhJ_49leBw?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>&#0160;</p> <p>Some time ago <a href="http://judgeright.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/consequential-knowledge.html" target="_blank" title="Consequential Knowledge 1">I wrote a piece</a> to challenge a blog neighbor&#39;s unjustified reliance on expert opinion and centralized social engineering. &#0160;Today I want to revisit the term that titled that post. &#0160;If the people are unwilling or unable to learn history and keep up on current events then the culture is doomed to repeat history&#39;s mistakes. &#0160;Thomas Sowell coined the term &#39;Consequential Knowledge&#39; and defines it; knowledge by virtue of it&#39;s presence or absence has serious consequences. &#0160;</p> <p>In very recent times and in our own culture we have dramatic evidence of the failures of centralized planning and the charismatic strong man who enforces fairness on everyone else. &#0160;This is a reprint of an article I found floating around online. &#0160;There were no sources given except those in the body of the text and I suspect it floated around a lot of email boxes before it landed on the blogs and message boards. &#0160;I will finish my thoughts after the letter.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0JbGxIR8JTk?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>&#0160;</p> <p>(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)<br /><br />DETROIT<br /><br />By Frosty Wooldridge<br /><br />For 15 years, from the mid 1970&#39;s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!<br /><br />Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!<br /><br />With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.<br /><br />A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson&#39;s &#39;Great Society&#39; flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.<br /><br />Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, &quot;I am the MFIC.&quot; The IC meant &quot;in charge&quot;.<br /><br />You can figure out the rest Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.<br /><br />As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.<br /><br />Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city for the free government hand outs, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan , but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.<br /><br />As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America ..<br /><br />Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC&#39;s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America .. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.<br /><br />Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine&#39;s October 4, 2009, &quot;The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again,&quot; I choked on the writer&#39;s description of what happened. &quot;If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we&#39;d know a lot more about it,&quot; said Daniel Okrent. &quot;If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we&#39;d see it on the evening news every night.&quot; Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.<br /><br />But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.<br /><br />Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making.&quot;<br /><br />As Coleman Young&#39;s corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city&#39;s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit .<br /><br />&quot;By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit &#39;s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services,&quot; Okrent said. &quot;The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers&#39; union to reject a philanthropist&#39;s offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That&#39;s worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.<br /><br />At the end of Okrent&#39;s report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, &quot;That&#39;s because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city&#39;s collapse, it&#39;s also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.<br /><br />If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can&#39;t find a way to get up, what does that say about America’s future?&quot;<br /><br />As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner&#39;s book,&quot;$20 Per Gallon&quot;, the auto industry won&#39;t come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.<br /><br />You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain , London , England , and Paris , France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.<br /><br />I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON&#39;T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FORIEGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN, THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.<br /><br />IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I&#39;M SORRY, I DON&#39;T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT ?<br /><br />&quot;Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.&quot; -- Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />IF YOU LOVE AMERICA , PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG…..<br /><br />&quot;You cannot help the poor&#0160;<br />by destroying the rich.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot strengthen the weak&#0160;<br />by weakening the strong.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot bring about prosperity&#0160;<br />by discouraging thrift.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot lift the wage earner up&#0160;<br />by pulling the wage payer down.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot further the brotherhood of man&#0160;<br />by inciting class hatred.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot build character and courage&#0160;<br />by taking away people&#39;s initiative and independence.&#0160;<br /><br />You cannot help people permanently&#0160;<br />by doing for them, what they could and&#0160;<br />should do for themselves.&quot;<br /><br /><br />Abraham Lincoln</p> <p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p>It is incumbent upon each generation to pass on the consequential knowledge they have inherited and picked up along life&#39;s journey. &#0160;It is incumbent upon each generation to seek out the best information available on current events and to require our progeny study history to compare our cultural well being. &#0160;It is incumbent upon each generaton to inculcate the work ethic, ettiquette, and other values they have learned and inherited from their forebears. &#0160;Everything Liberalism demands or envisions of/for our culture is anathema to that purpose. &#0160;The letter above is anecdotal evidence toward that fact. &#0160;The city and state are not anecdotal and neither are the other Liberal strongholds where the records of long held, long policied, long consequence reveal hampered cultural and economic well-being if not outright civic disaster. &#0160;I invite you to compare Conservative strongholds and their records on cultural and economic health. &#0160;Please get this consequential information into as many young minds and hearts as you possibly can.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1hhJ_49leBw?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0162fbbc949a970d lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-10-18T20:54:55Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0162fbbc9482970dNew York Times Censored Comments http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-10-18T20:54:52Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div dir="ltr"> <div>New York Times Censored Comments by Lightfoot Letters</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding Health Care</strong></div> <div>US Constituti­on Article I, Sec. 8 denies the federal government the authority to establish or fund health care. <br />Amend. IX, X - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constituti­on, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respective­ly, or to the people. This does not leave much to interpret. It seems clear to me that the Several States, Counties, Cities could fund health and they do for public employees. Amend. X reiterates that no authority exists for the Federal Government to create nor fund health care. And, the Su. Ct. has no authority, to decide or create that, which does not exist. That is, to change the meaning of commerce which is large scale trade of goods between states foreign and domestic and bypass the Amend. process which is reserved for, to and by the people. <br />To argue that point means Article I, Sec. 8. the IX and X Amend.s and the Amend. process have no applicable legal meaning. <br />This is the most important point. In fact, it is the only point.</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><strong>Regarding Islam</strong></div> <div>&quot;Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State, the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over the character of the emerging political orders they are helping to build.&quot; - NYT. The Military Political Complex of Islam is the &#39;character.&#39; That character will not change until the &#39;Complex&#39; is dismantled. When the religion, the soldier, the citizen, the politician are not all the same person. When the brutal treatment of women by the Military Political Complex of Islam and the individual male is no more !?</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><strong>Regarding Citizen Action</strong></div> <div> <div id="ecxfirstBozoComment">&quot;As Central Falls, R.I., fought bankruptcy, a state-appointed receiver closed the library. But residents decided it was something they couldn&#39;t do without.&quot; - NYT. The key here is &#39;residents.&#39; This is an inspiring story about what &#39;we the people&#39; can do without relying on government at every turn. We need millions of stories like this and we will get out of the financial mess the Federal Government has caused. The public employees can not or will not fix the problems they themselves have caused. Best wishes to Central Falls. <br /><br /><br /></div> <div><strong>Regarding the Debt Ceiling</strong></div> <div>&quot;That is exactly the choice, and Republicans brought it on themselves by turning the routine debt-ceiling vote into a life-or-death struggle over the unrelated issue of taxes and spending.&quot;- NYT. The debt-ceiling is directly related to issues of taxes and spending. If not for more spending what is the purpose of raising the debt-ceiling. But, you are right about one thing. It is a life-or-death struggle for the survival of the Several States !?</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding Voter Fraud</strong></div> </div> <div>&quot;Republicans (and all other citizens that want fair elections) say they want to prevent voter fraud, but some groups say they worry that the new restrictions may discourage people from going to vote&quot; - NYT. I always had to show ID in California until about 5 years ago. It never occurred to me that having to carry ID would in anyway stop me from voting. In my opinion those that want un-identified persons to vote want fraudulent elections they can control.</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding the Financial Meltdown</strong></div> <div>&quot;Many around the world are worried that Europe is about to face a Lehman Brothers moment, a big bankruptcy or sudden default.\&quot; NYT. You make it sound like the public employees have nothing to do with the financial problems they themselves have caused. It was not the private sector that created Fannie, Freddie, public employee unions and all similar public policy that has caused this financial meltdown. Their counterparts in Europe will have to fix the problems and it will not be a peivate sector Lehman Brothers moment !?</div> <div><strong>Regarding Creating Jobs<br /></strong> <div>&quot;How Steve Jobs Infused Passion Into a Commodity&quot; (and workers) -&#0160;NYT. &quot;Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: Inventor And Artist.&quot; -&#0160;Huffington Post. I think Steven Paul Jobs great accomplishment was his contribution to the business world. He was not just a creator of new ways and more effective ways of doing things in and around the business world...He created thousands if not hundreds of thousands of jobs directly and indirectly. If President Obama, his Administration and Congress were serious about creating private sector jobs, they would have to look no further than Steven Paul Jobs. However, when your agenda is creating and maintaining public employee union jobs....they will lose sight of more jobs and Jobs, Steven Paul that is. And, his personal accomplishments !?</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding Violence on the Campus</strong></div> <div id="ecxfirstBozoComment">&quot;I have watched with a heavy heart these last few years as one child after another has committed suicide because he or she was bullied.&quot; - Charles Blow, NYT. Have you not wondered what is the root cause of the increase in violence on the high school campus. Is it possible the more public education tries to force all students into one cookie cutter mold the more violence and rebellion we will have. Or, why we now have armed guards and police officers assigned to the campus regardless of income and location. If not, you should ! You will find we are the main cause of the violence, and the reason it will continue the same percent as the social engineering concepts are forced on the kids. A world where young boys are not allowed to be boys and grow up to be men is in constant conflict inside and out. <br /><br /></div> <div>&#0160;<strong>Regarding Sensible Government</strong></div> <div>&quot;Gov. Jerry Brown of California took a stand for immigrants’ rights and humane, sensible government when he signed several new bills into law. It is a welcome change from the intolerance and counterproductive policies being adopted in so many other states around the country.&quot; - NYT.&#0160; This can only be described as a blatant lie.&#0160;Illegal alien &#39;immigrants&#39;&#0160;have no vested rights to taxpayers money. It is not &#39;intolerance&#39; to insist our corrupt public employees, especially the politicians, to enforce our basic laws. Except, honest hard working citizens are becoming less acceptable to the failures and lavish benefits the public employees have bestowed on themselves. And, a time&#0160;when the only &#39;service&#39; by public employees&#0160;is self service.</div> <div>&#0160;<br />It is a mystery why&#0160; a great newspaper like the New York Times which should be a beacon for individual liberty and liberal philosophy has become nothing more than a &#39;front&#39; for the corrupt public employees, unions and partisan politics.<br />&#0160;<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;e-mail comments: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <div>New York Times Censored Comments by Lightfoot Letters</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding Health Care</strong></div> <div>US Constituti­on Article I, Sec. 8 denies the federal government the authority to establish or fund health care. <br />Amend. IX, X - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constituti­on, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respective­ly, or to the people. This does not leave much to interpret. It seems clear to me that the Several States, Counties, Cities could fund health and they do for public employees. Amend. X reiterates that no authority exists for the Federal Government to create nor fund health care. And, the Su. Ct. has no authority, to decide or create that, which does not exist. That is, to change the meaning of commerce which is large scale trade of goods between states foreign and domestic and bypass the Amend. process which is reserved for, to and by the people. <br />To argue that point means Article I, Sec. 8. the IX and X Amend.s and the Amend. process have no applicable legal meaning. <br />This is the most important point. In fact, it is the only point.</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><strong>Regarding Islam</strong></div> <div>&quot;Activists in Arab World Vie to Define Islamic State, the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over the character of the emerging political orders they are helping to build.&quot; - NYT. The Military Political Complex of Islam is the &#39;character.&#39; That character will not change until the &#39;Complex&#39; is dismantled. When the religion, the soldier, the citizen, the politician are not all the same person. When the brutal treatment of women by the Military Political Complex of Islam and the individual male is no more !?</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><strong>Regarding Citizen Action</strong></div> <div> <div id="ecxfirstBozoComment">&quot;As Central Falls, R.I., fought bankruptcy, a state-appointed receiver closed the library. But residents decided it was something they couldn&#39;t do without.&quot; - NYT. The key here is &#39;residents.&#39; This is an inspiring story about what &#39;we the people&#39; can do without relying on government at every turn. We need millions of stories like this and we will get out of the financial mess the Federal Government has caused. The public employees can not or will not fix the problems they themselves have caused. Best wishes to Central Falls. <br /><br /><br /></div> <div><strong>Regarding the Debt Ceiling</strong></div> <div>&quot;That is exactly the choice, and Republicans brought it on themselves by turning the routine debt-ceiling vote into a life-or-death struggle over the unrelated issue of taxes and spending.&quot;- NYT. The debt-ceiling is directly related to issues of taxes and spending. If not for more spending what is the purpose of raising the debt-ceiling. But, you are right about one thing. It is a life-or-death struggle for the survival of the Several States !?</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding Voter Fraud</strong></div> </div> <div>&quot;Republicans (and all other citizens that want fair elections) say they want to prevent voter fraud, but some groups say they worry that the new restrictions may discourage people from going to vote&quot; - NYT. I always had to show ID in California until about 5 years ago. It never occurred to me that having to carry ID would in anyway stop me from voting. In my opinion those that want un-identified persons to vote want fraudulent elections they can control.</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding the Financial Meltdown</strong></div> <div>&quot;Many around the world are worried that Europe is about to face a Lehman Brothers moment, a big bankruptcy or sudden default.\&quot; NYT. You make it sound like the public employees have nothing to do with the financial problems they themselves have caused. It was not the private sector that created Fannie, Freddie, public employee unions and all similar public policy that has caused this financial meltdown. Their counterparts in Europe will have to fix the problems and it will not be a peivate sector Lehman Brothers moment !?</div> <div><strong>Regarding Creating Jobs<br /></strong> <div>&quot;How Steve Jobs Infused Passion Into a Commodity&quot; (and workers) -&#0160;NYT. &quot;Steve Jobs, 1955-2011: Inventor And Artist.&quot; -&#0160;Huffington Post. I think Steven Paul Jobs great accomplishment was his contribution to the business world. He was not just a creator of new ways and more effective ways of doing things in and around the business world...He created thousands if not hundreds of thousands of jobs directly and indirectly. If President Obama, his Administration and Congress were serious about creating private sector jobs, they would have to look no further than Steven Paul Jobs. However, when your agenda is creating and maintaining public employee union jobs....they will lose sight of more jobs and Jobs, Steven Paul that is. And, his personal accomplishments !?</div> <div><br /><strong>Regarding Violence on the Campus</strong></div> <div id="ecxfirstBozoComment">&quot;I have watched with a heavy heart these last few years as one child after another has committed suicide because he or she was bullied.&quot; - Charles Blow, NYT. Have you not wondered what is the root cause of the increase in violence on the high school campus. Is it possible the more public education tries to force all students into one cookie cutter mold the more violence and rebellion we will have. Or, why we now have armed guards and police officers assigned to the campus regardless of income and location. If not, you should ! You will find we are the main cause of the violence, and the reason it will continue the same percent as the social engineering concepts are forced on the kids. A world where young boys are not allowed to be boys and grow up to be men is in constant conflict inside and out. <br /><br /></div> <div>&#0160;<strong>Regarding Sensible Government</strong></div> <div>&quot;Gov. Jerry Brown of California took a stand for immigrants’ rights and humane, sensible government when he signed several new bills into law. It is a welcome change from the intolerance and counterproductive policies being adopted in so many other states around the country.&quot; - NYT.&#0160; This can only be described as a blatant lie.&#0160;Illegal alien &#39;immigrants&#39;&#0160;have no vested rights to taxpayers money. It is not &#39;intolerance&#39; to insist our corrupt public employees, especially the politicians, to enforce our basic laws. Except, honest hard working citizens are becoming less acceptable to the failures and lavish benefits the public employees have bestowed on themselves. And, a time&#0160;when the only &#39;service&#39; by public employees&#0160;is self service.</div> <div>&#0160;<br />It is a mystery why&#0160; a great newspaper like the New York Times which should be a beacon for individual liberty and liberal philosophy has become nothing more than a &#39;front&#39; for the corrupt public employees, unions and partisan politics.<br />&#0160;<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;e-mail comments: <a href="mailto:lightfoot.letters@live.com">lightfoot.letters@live.com</a></div> </div> </div> </div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b015434200a91970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-07-30T23:32:58Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b015434200a8d970cBill to Ban Open Carry‏ http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-07-30T23:32:58Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div dir="ltr"> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">The US Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, and ratified June 21, 1788.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div> <div><br /><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3826/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Darrell Steinberg</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-6)</span></div> <div><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">(916) 651-4006</span></a></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><a href="mailto:senator.steinberg@senate.ca.gov"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">senator.steinberg@senate.ca.gov</span></a></div> </div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senate Appropriations Committee</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Dear Senator Steinburg,</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Please consider the following.</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <p><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed was adopted on December 15, 1791.&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;<img alt="Steinberg_emissions.jpg" border="0" src="https://dist06.casen.govoffice.com/vertical/sites/%7B7725E161-3575-4D46-9AAA-F23C36620558%7D/uploads/%7B05527C8D-2D7C-4666-985D-49E8205532BC%7D_Web.jpg" />&#0160;&#0160;</span>&#0160;<span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Sen. Steinberg speaking on Global Warming<br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<br /></span></p> </div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">We as a Nation must follow the US Constitution. Especially, elected officials as yourself. Unfortunately, the reverse is true. It is the elected and appointed public employees that are most at fault in ignoring the Constitution or making laws, rules and regulations that diminish or cause some guarantees to be useless to void.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Rather than place more restrictions on the right of self-defense for law-abiding Californians,&#0160;you the public employee&#0160;legislator, should&#0160; take steps to ensure that all citizens of the&#0160;State of California&#0160;are treated equally by enacting a statewide “shall-issue” Right-to-Carry law, with clear standards for the issuance of a carry permit that all counties must follow. It is your duty to uphold the US Constitution or step down without any further cost or burden&#0160;to the taxpayer.&#0160;</span></div> <span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;Last, from a financial point of view Assembly Bill 144 is unconstitutional on it&#39;s face. And, will result in millions of tax dollars wasted on a long losing&#0160;court battle which will only further burden our already overburdened legal system. Not to mention the waste of public employee resources regarding productive hours worked and paid.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;Thank you for giving this serious matter your attention,</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Lightfoot Letters<br />&#0160;<br /></span> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/4749/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Mimi Walters</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (R-33)</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3821/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Bill Emmerson</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (R-37)</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3822/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Ted W. Lieu</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-28)</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3823/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Fran Pavley</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-23)Ban</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3824/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Curren Price</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-26) </span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3825/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Sharon Runner</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (R-17) </span></div> </div> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">The US Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, and ratified June 21, 1788.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div> <div><br /><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3826/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Darrell Steinberg</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-6)</span></div> <div><a target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">(916) 651-4006</span></a></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><a href="mailto:senator.steinberg@senate.ca.gov"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">senator.steinberg@senate.ca.gov</span></a></div> </div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senate Appropriations Committee</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Dear Senator Steinburg,</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Please consider the following.</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <p><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed was adopted on December 15, 1791.&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;<img alt="Steinberg_emissions.jpg" border="0" src="http://dist06.casen.govoffice.com/vertical/sites/%7B7725E161-3575-4D46-9AAA-F23C36620558%7D/uploads/%7B05527C8D-2D7C-4666-985D-49E8205532BC%7D_Web.jpg" />&#0160;&#0160;</span>&#0160;<span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Sen. Steinberg speaking on Global Warming<br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<br /></span></p> </div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">We as a Nation must follow the US Constitution. Especially, elected officials as yourself. Unfortunately, the reverse is true. It is the elected and appointed public employees that are most at fault in ignoring the Constitution or making laws, rules and regulations that diminish or cause some guarantees to be useless to void.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"> <div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Rather than place more restrictions on the right of self-defense for law-abiding Californians,&#0160;you the public employee&#0160;legislator, should&#0160; take steps to ensure that all citizens of the&#0160;State of California&#0160;are treated equally by enacting a statewide “shall-issue” Right-to-Carry law, with clear standards for the issuance of a carry permit that all counties must follow. It is your duty to uphold the US Constitution or step down without any further cost or burden&#0160;to the taxpayer.&#0160;</span></div> <span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;Last, from a financial point of view Assembly Bill 144 is unconstitutional on it&#39;s face. And, will result in millions of tax dollars wasted on a long losing&#0160;court battle which will only further burden our already overburdened legal system. Not to mention the waste of public employee resources regarding productive hours worked and paid.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;Thank you for giving this serious matter your attention,</span></div> <div style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">&#0160;</span></div> <span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Lightfoot Letters<br />&#0160;<br /></span> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/4749/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Mimi Walters</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (R-33)</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3821/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Bill Emmerson</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (R-37)</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3822/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Ted W. Lieu</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-28)</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3823/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Fran Pavley</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-23)Ban</span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">cc: </span><a href="http://www.nramedia.org/t/92948/6670272/3824/0/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c6d9f0;">Senator Curren Price</span></a><span style="color: #c6d9f0;"> (D-26) </span></div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; text-align: left; background-color: transparent; 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font-size: x-small;">Lightfoot Letters... thought you might find this of interest.....</span></strong></span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong></strong>&#0160;</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong></strong>&#0160;</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Dear President Obama:<br /><br />You are the thirteenth President under whom I have&#0160; lived and unlike<br />Any of the others, you truly scare me.<br /><br />You scare me because after months of exposure, I&#0160; know nothing about you.<br /><br /><br />You scare me because I do not know how you paid for&#0160; your expensive&#0160;<br />Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and&#0160; housing with no<br />Visible signs of support.<br /><br />You scare me because you did not spend the formative&#0160; years of youth&#0160;<br />Growing up in&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;and culturally you are not an&#0160; American.<br /><br />You scare me because you have never run a company or&#0160; met a payroll.<br /><br />You scare me because you have never had military&#0160; experience, thus&#0160;<br />Don&#39;t understand it at its core.<br /><br />You scare me because you lack humility and &#39;class&#39;,&#0160; always blaming others.<br /><br />You scare me because for over half your life you&#0160; have aligned&#0160;<br />Yourself with radical extremists who hate&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; and you refuse to&#0160;<br />Publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;fail..<br /><br />You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the&#0160; &#39;blame&#0160;America&#0160;&#39;&#0160;<br />Crowd and deliver this message abroad.<br /><br />You scare me because you want to change&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;to a&#0160; European style&#0160;<br />Country where the government sector dominates&#0160; instead of the private sector.<br /><br />You scare me because you want to replace our health&#0160; care system&#0160;<br />With a government controlled one.<br /><br />You scare me because you prefer &#39;wind mills&#39; to&#0160; responsibly&#0160;<br />Capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale&#0160; reserves.<br /><br />You scare me because you want to kill the American&#0160; capitalist goose&#0160;<br />That lays the golden egg which provides the highest&#0160; standard of&#0160;<br />Living in the world.<br /><br />You scare me because you have begun to use&#0160; &#39;extortion&#39; tactics&#0160;<br />Against certain banks and corporations.<br /><br />You scare me because your own political party&#0160; shrinks from&#0160;<br />Challenging you on your wild and irresponsible&#0160; spending proposals.<br /><br />You scare me because you will not openly listen to&#0160; or even consider&#0160;<br />Opposing points of view from intelligent&#0160; people.<br /><br />You scare me because you falsely believe that you&#0160; are both&#0160;<br />Omnipotent and omniscient.<br /><br />You scare me because the media gives you a free pass&#0160; on everything&#0160;<br />You do.<br /><br />You scare me because you demonize and want to&#0160; silence the&#0160;<br />Limbaugh&#39;s, Hannitys, O&#39;Reillys and Becks who offer&#0160; opposing,&#0160;<br />Conservative points of view.<br /><br />You scare me because you prefer controlling over&#0160; governing.<br /><br />Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second&#0160; term I will&#0160;<br />Probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Lou Pritchett - Procter and Gamble&#0160;</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">&#0160;<br /></span></strong></span></div> </div> <p style="text-align: center; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: #ff4040;">&#0160;</span></p> <div style="text-align: center; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; 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<a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></span></strong></span></div> <div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">April 19, 2011</span></strong></span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong></strong>&#0160;</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Lightfoot Letters... thought you might find this of interest.....</span></strong></span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong></strong>&#0160;</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong></strong>&#0160;</span></div> <div style="padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #ff4040;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Dear President Obama:<br /><br />You are the thirteenth President under whom I have&#0160; lived and unlike<br />Any of the others, you truly scare me.<br /><br />You scare me because after months of exposure, I&#0160; know nothing about you.<br /><br /><br />You scare me because I do not know how you paid for&#0160; your expensive&#0160;<br />Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and&#0160; housing with no<br />Visible signs of support.<br /><br />You scare me because you did not spend the formative&#0160; years of youth&#0160;<br />Growing up in&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;and culturally you are not an&#0160; American.<br /><br />You scare me because you have never run a company or&#0160; met a payroll.<br /><br />You scare me because you have never had military&#0160; experience, thus&#0160;<br />Don&#39;t understand it at its core.<br /><br />You scare me because you lack humility and &#39;class&#39;,&#0160; always blaming others.<br /><br />You scare me because for over half your life you&#0160; have aligned&#0160;<br />Yourself with radical extremists who hate&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; and you refuse to&#0160;<br />Publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;fail..<br /><br />You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the&#0160; &#39;blame&#0160;America&#0160;&#39;&#0160;<br />Crowd and deliver this message abroad.<br /><br />You scare me because you want to change&#0160;&#0160;America&#0160;to a&#0160; European style&#0160;<br />Country where the government sector dominates&#0160; instead of the private sector.<br /><br />You scare me because you want to replace our health&#0160; care system&#0160;<br />With a government controlled one.<br /><br />You scare me because you prefer &#39;wind mills&#39; to&#0160; responsibly&#0160;<br />Capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale&#0160; reserves.<br /><br />You scare me because you want to kill the American&#0160; capitalist goose&#0160;<br />That lays the golden egg which provides the highest&#0160; standard of&#0160;<br />Living in the world.<br /><br />You scare me because you have begun to use&#0160; &#39;extortion&#39; tactics&#0160;<br />Against certain banks and corporations.<br /><br />You scare me because your own political party&#0160; shrinks from&#0160;<br />Challenging you on your wild and irresponsible&#0160; spending proposals.<br /><br />You scare me because you will not openly listen to&#0160; or even consider&#0160;<br />Opposing points of view from intelligent&#0160; people.<br /><br />You scare me because you falsely believe that you&#0160; are both&#0160;<br />Omnipotent and omniscient.<br /><br />You scare me because the media gives you a free pass&#0160; on everything&#0160;<br />You do.<br /><br />You scare me because you demonize and want to&#0160; silence the&#0160;<br />Limbaugh&#39;s, Hannitys, O&#39;Reillys and Becks who offer&#0160; opposing,&#0160;<br />Conservative points of view.<br /><br />You scare me because you prefer controlling over&#0160; governing.<br /><br />Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second&#0160; 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Intoxicated equals a drunk in public charge. Punching two men equals simple assault and battery. Being biased is not any kind or form of crime. The Constitution was written specifically to protect such speech and to forbid such subjective punishment. If not, we would all be in jail, including the district attorney, judge, lawyers and guards.</span></p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">George Orwell was correct in many ways in his book 1984 regarding the&#0160;incessant public mind control. It&#39;s arrival was just a little latter than 1984.&#0160;&#0160;</span><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters</span></p> <p>&#0160;<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Published - The Daily Pilot - The LA Times Group&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">April 5, 2011</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;A white man accused of yelling racial remarks while intoxicated and then punching two Hispanic men was scheduled to be arraigned Monday on hate-crime charges.&#0160;&#0160;<a href="http://www.dailypilot.com/news/education/tn-dpt-0329-jurjacks-20110328,0,1752192.story" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">&quot;Man arraigned on hate-crime charges&quot;</span></a> (March 29): Yelling racial remarks is a matter of freedom of speech, which the offended party has civil recourse for any real or perceived harm to one&#39;s personal or social reputation. Intoxicated equals a drunk in public charge. Punching two men equals simple assault and battery. Being biased is not any kind or form of crime. The Constitution was written specifically to protect such speech and to forbid such subjective punishment. If not, we would all be in jail, including the district attorney, judge, lawyers and guards.</span></p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">George Orwell was correct in many ways in his book 1984 regarding the&#0160;incessant public mind control. It&#39;s arrival was just a little latter than 1984.&#0160;&#0160;</span><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters</span></p> <p>&#0160;<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Published - The Daily Pilot - The LA Times Group&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">April 5, 2011</span></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b014e5fdbb081970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-03-14T23:34:40Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b014e5fdbb07f970cThis for Thathttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-03-14T23:34:39Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">March, 14, 2011</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;UAA Professor and formeerAlaska Attorney General</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">John Havelock</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regarding your Op-Ed piece in the Alaska Daily News,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wisconsin harks back to old power imbalance - &quot;No state shall pass any law ... impairing the obligation of contracts.&quot; But that means, of course, &quot;no state legislature.&quot; State courts are free to interpret &quot;the common law.&quot; John Havelock&#0160; former Alaska attorney general who teaches public policy at UAA.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First, for all practical legal purpose &#39;common law&#39; no longer exist. Second. courts including the Su. Ct. are not allowed to interpret any law, especially the Constitution, in such a way that, incorporates or creates that which does not exist. That is reserved to the people and the Amend. process. Example; the State courts or &#0160;Su. Ct. has no&#0160; authority to change the meaning of the word &#39;commerce&#39; from large scale trade of goods between states to include fee for service. The State Courts or the Su. Ct. can not change the meaning of the &#39;conrtract clause&#39; to mean something less than unburdened &#0160;freedom to contract and the obligations there of.&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Any and all government contracts, with unions, is a violation of the &#39;contract clause&#39; specifically because it puts a burden on non-union members to which they have not agreed or submitted to by their own free will.</span></p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Last, this has little to do with the public employees in&#0160;Wisconsin and collective bargaining rights. Collective bargaining is not a &#39;right.&#39; It is a privilege created by statute that can be, given or taken away, by a simple vote of the people. The &#39;imbalance of power&#39; is that public employees negotiate with other public employees for the mutual benefit of each other. It would be better described as a &#39;quid pro quo&#39; and not a negotiation of any kind in the true sense of the word.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Published in the ADN as a commentary.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">March, 14, 2011</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;UAA Professor and formeerAlaska Attorney General</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">John Havelock</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regarding your Op-Ed piece in the Alaska Daily News,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wisconsin harks back to old power imbalance - &quot;No state shall pass any law ... impairing the obligation of contracts.&quot; But that means, of course, &quot;no state legislature.&quot; State courts are free to interpret &quot;the common law.&quot; John Havelock&#0160; former Alaska attorney general who teaches public policy at UAA.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First, for all practical legal purpose &#39;common law&#39; no longer exist. Second. courts including the Su. Ct. are not allowed to interpret any law, especially the Constitution, in such a way that, incorporates or creates that which does not exist. That is reserved to the people and the Amend. process. Example; the State courts or &#0160;Su. Ct. has no&#0160; authority to change the meaning of the word &#39;commerce&#39; from large scale trade of goods between states to include fee for service. The State Courts or the Su. Ct. can not change the meaning of the &#39;conrtract clause&#39; to mean something less than unburdened &#0160;freedom to contract and the obligations there of.&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Any and all government contracts, with unions, is a violation of the &#39;contract clause&#39; specifically because it puts a burden on non-union members to which they have not agreed or submitted to by their own free will.</span></p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Last, this has little to do with the public employees in&#0160;Wisconsin and collective bargaining rights. Collective bargaining is not a &#39;right.&#39; It is a privilege created by statute that can be, given or taken away, by a simple vote of the people. The &#39;imbalance of power&#39; is that public employees negotiate with other public employees for the mutual benefit of each other. It would be better described as a &#39;quid pro quo&#39; and not a negotiation of any kind in the true sense of the word.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Published in the ADN as a commentary.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></span></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b014e86b68438970d lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-03-14T23:31:24Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b014e86b68434970dThis for Thathttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-03-14T23:31:24Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">March, 14, 2011</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">UAA Professor and formeer Alaska Attorney General</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">John Havelock</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regarding your Op-Ed piece in the Alaska Daily News,</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wisconsin harks back to old power imbalance - &quot;No state shall pass any law ... impairing the obligation of contracts.&quot; But that means, of course, &quot;no state legislature.&quot; State courts are free to interpret &quot;the common law.&quot; John Havelock&#0160; former Alaska attorney general who teaches public policy at UAA.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First, for all practical legal purpose &#39;common law&#39; no longer exist. Second. courts including the Su. Ct. are not allowed to interpret any law, especially the Constitution, in such a way that, incorporates or creates that which does not exist. That is reserved to the people and the Amend. process. Example; the State courts or &#0160;Su. Ct. has no&#0160; authority to change the meaning of the word &#39;commerce&#39; from large scale trade of goods between states to include fee for service. The State Courts or the Su. Ct. can not change the meaning of the &#39;conrtract clause&#39; to mean something less than unburdened &#0160;freedom to contract and the obligations there of.&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Any and all government contracts, with unions, is a violation of the &#39;contract clause&#39; specifically because it puts a burden on non-union members to which they have not agreed or submitted to by their own free will.</span></p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Last, this has little to do with the public employees in&#0160;Wisconsin and collective bargaining rights. Collective bargaining is not a &#39;right.&#39; It is a privilege created by statute that can be, given or taken away, by a simple vote of the people. The &#39;imbalance of power&#39; is that public employees negotiate with other public employees for the mutual benefit of each other. 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Second. courts including the Su. Ct. are not allowed to interpret any law, especially the Constitution, in such a way that, incorporates or creates that which does not exist. That is reserved to the people and the Amend. process. Example; the State courts or &#0160;Su. Ct. has no&#0160; authority to change the meaning of the word &#39;commerce&#39; from large scale trade of goods between states to include fee for service. The State Courts or the Su. 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It would be better described as a &#39;quid pro quo&#39; and not a negotiation of any kind in the true sense of the word.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lightfoot Letters</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&#0160;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Published in the ADN as a commentary.</span></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b014e5fdb8f01970c lightfootletters is now following Account Deleted https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/follow2011-03-14T23:00:41Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3c517f4970bAccount Deletedhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/persontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b014e866c477a970d lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-03-01T20:11:22Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b014e866c4774970dHuffington Post - the best of comments http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-03-01T20:11:21Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a>&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #888888;">June 18, 2009</span></div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">6 Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></div> <div>&quot;I&#39;m sure it&#39;s just one of Michelle&#39;s ancestors -- probably harmless.&quot; Every off-color comment or joke is not racism. Racism, that is important, is when government employees, usually elected officials, reward or punish citizens based on race thru public policy or laws.<br />Based on their beliefs.<br />&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a> &#0160; <span style="color: #888888;">0July 29, 2009</span></div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">6 Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;"> <br /></span>&quot;Change is possible and will bring about a better health care system.&quot; Robert Creamer. You do not need the president or congress to bring about the changes you desire. You and those who support your ideas should create a health insurance plan for those you feel are needy. The private sector is much more efficient and creative than the Federal Government. Right now! Stop talking and get to work to bring about the change you desire. Not the president or congress or your next door neighbor....It is up to you!</div> <div><br />&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;&#0160;</span>&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 3, 2009</span></div> <div><span style="color: #888888;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&quot; There is no health care crisis. Health insurance, especially HMO&#39;s, and Federal and State Government interjecting &#39;social engineering concepts into the health care model is the reason care is so expensive. More of the same will not lower costs nor create better care. Simply put; paying more government and HMO workers to push paper around instead of paying doctors, nurses and hospitals directly, &#39;fails.&#39; If you feel that you need a plan buy a catastrophic policy. If you really need help this is the only way to go. Care for your body just like your house.</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 12, 2009</span></div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">6 Fans</span></a> <br />&quot;fair slice of the pie.&quot; The problem is and has been who decides what is fair. The Federal Government can not be trusted. And, I have my doubts about State, County or City when public employees make 30 to 50% more than the private sector in wage and benefits.</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 20, 2009</span></div> </div> <div> <div id="ecxcmt_txt_wrap_29415247-body">When you tax the poor, like a 300% Federal tax increase on tobacco, yes the poor get more poor. And, then add all the government programs like the lottery designed to take money from the lower middle class and the poor... the poor will get more poor. And that is the way it is this Aug. 20, 2009.</div> </div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 21, 2009</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">7</span><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;<br /></span>&#0160;Is this the same Bill Maher who claims he is a libertarian? That is as absurd as Maxine Waters (D) claming to be a liberal, as she is advocating nationalizing the oil companies. Meaning no dis-courtesy to Mr. Maher, but speaking and writing like Mark Levin with a little Michael Moore thrown in, is not impressive. Being a partisan hack is not exclusive to the Republican Party.</div> <div style="clear: both;">&quot;What is this conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?&quot;---Abraham Lincoln</div> <div style="clear: both;">&#0160;</div> <div style="clear: both;">Great quote, because Lincoln and the Republicans were the liberals of their day..not conservatives. And, were the liberals till approximately WW ll. Since then, neither Democrats or Republicans are liberals...only some variation of socialist, conservative or statist.</div> <p>&#0160;</p> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 24, 2009</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">7</span><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;<br /></span>&quot;Taking Women&#39;s Rights and Slavery Seriously.&quot; This is the question that has been repeatedly asked of the Black Caucus, the ACLU, NOW organization, Hispanic Caucus, the Race and all like organizations and groups. There is no forthcoming answer or serious discussion. They are all too busy worrying a pubic hair on a Coke bottle, a cross on a city seal, an off color joke in the work place. The &#39;too busy&#39; list is endless. Too offended, by every mindless unimportant event of everyday life, to even approach or discuss, almost all serious matters, of the day. And, the sad, very sad part is, these groups will not change because they get more money to remove a cross from public view, than protecting a young girl in Africa, mutilated and sold into forced servitude or slavery</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a>&#0160;&#0160; <span style="color: #888888;">June 18, 2009</span></div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">6 Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></div> <div>&quot;I&#39;m sure it&#39;s just one of Michelle&#39;s ancestors -- probably harmless.&quot; Every off-color comment or joke is not racism. Racism, that is important, is when government employees, usually elected officials, reward or punish citizens based on race thru public policy or laws.<br />Based on their beliefs.<br />&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a> &#0160; <span style="color: #888888;">0July 29, 2009</span></div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">6 Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;"> <br /></span>&quot;Change is possible and will bring about a better health care system.&quot; Robert Creamer. You do not need the president or congress to bring about the changes you desire. You and those who support your ideas should create a health insurance plan for those you feel are needy. The private sector is much more efficient and creative than the Federal Government. Right now! Stop talking and get to work to bring about the change you desire. Not the president or congress or your next door neighbor....It is up to you!</div> <div><br />&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;&#0160;</span>&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 3, 2009</span></div> <div><span style="color: #888888;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&quot; There is no health care crisis. Health insurance, especially HMO&#39;s, and Federal and State Government interjecting &#39;social engineering concepts into the health care model is the reason care is so expensive. More of the same will not lower costs nor create better care. Simply put; paying more government and HMO workers to push paper around instead of paying doctors, nurses and hospitals directly, &#39;fails.&#39; If you feel that you need a plan buy a catastrophic policy. If you really need help this is the only way to go. Care for your body just like your house.</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 12, 2009</span></div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">6 Fans</span></a> <br />&quot;fair slice of the pie.&quot; The problem is and has been who decides what is fair. The Federal Government can not be trusted. And, I have my doubts about State, County or City when public employees make 30 to 50% more than the private sector in wage and benefits.</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 20, 2009</span></div> </div> <div> <div id="ecxcmt_txt_wrap_29415247-body">When you tax the poor, like a 300% Federal tax increase on tobacco, yes the poor get more poor. And, then add all the government programs like the lottery designed to take money from the lower middle class and the poor... the poor will get more poor. And that is the way it is this Aug. 20, 2009.</div> </div> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 21, 2009</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">7</span><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;<br /></span>&#0160;Is this the same Bill Maher who claims he is a libertarian? That is as absurd as Maxine Waters (D) claming to be a liberal, as she is advocating nationalizing the oil companies. Meaning no dis-courtesy to Mr. Maher, but speaking and writing like Mark Levin with a little Michael Moore thrown in, is not impressive. Being a partisan hack is not exclusive to the Republican Party.</div> <div style="clear: both;">&quot;What is this conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?&quot;---Abraham Lincoln</div> <div style="clear: both;">&#0160;</div> <div style="clear: both;">Great quote, because Lincoln and the Republicans were the liberals of their day..not conservatives. And, were the liberals till approximately WW ll. Since then, neither Democrats or Republicans are liberals...only some variation of socialist, conservative or statist.</div> <p>&#0160;</p> <div><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters?action=comments" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: small;">Lightfoot Letters</span></strong></a>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: #888888;"> August 24, 2009</span></div> <div><span style="color: #c00000;">7</span><a href="http://sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com/social/Lightfoot_Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;Fans</span></a><span style="color: #c00000;">&#0160;<br /></span>&quot;Taking Women&#39;s Rights and Slavery Seriously.&quot; This is the question that has been repeatedly asked of the Black Caucus, the ACLU, NOW organization, Hispanic Caucus, the Race and all like organizations and groups. There is no forthcoming answer or serious discussion. They are all too busy worrying a pubic hair on a Coke bottle, a cross on a city seal, an off color joke in the work place. The &#39;too busy&#39; list is endless. Too offended, by every mindless unimportant event of everyday life, to even approach or discuss, almost all serious matters, of the day. And, the sad, very sad part is, these groups will not change because they get more money to remove a cross from public view, than protecting a young girl in Africa, mutilated and sold into forced servitude or slavery</div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0148c856d500970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-02-04T21:37:18Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0148c856d4fd970cMadam Speakerhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-02-04T21:37:18Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <div><a name="4703006835466282678" target="_blank"></a> <h3><a href="http://lightfootletters.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-25-2010-nancy-pelosi-congresswoman.html" target="_blank">Madam Speaker</a></h3> </div> <div>May 25, 2010<br /><br /><br />Nancy Pelosi<br />Congresswoman 8th. District California<br /><br /><br />Madam Speaker,</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>I listened with interest as you spoke of a civilized society. John Loke, the father of liberalism, thought &#39;tolerance&#39; was necessary for a civilized society to continue as a civilized society and prosper as a free nation.<br /><br />Tolerance, a liberal concept, that the Democrat Party is completely lacking. From being members and supporters of the Klan, to being members and supporters of the Race; from union thugs on the street, to political thugs on the college campus; from illiberal hacks in the media, to illiberal hacks in the education system, from the oppression of the Federal Government to the oppression of public employee unions, the Democrat Party shows a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to maintain a civilized society.<br /><br />That is, the liberal concept of tolerance which is necessary for all citizens to exercise those &#39;natural rights.&#39; Those natural rights found in liberalism that can not be granted nor denied by the state. Which, one is, that I alone may decide what is best for myself, as long I cause no harm to others. Yes, tolerance is absolutely necessary for a civilized society to continue and prosper as a free nation state. I hope you Madam Speaker, the President and Congress will keep this in mind when you feel the need to act as &#39;The Great White Father&#39; taking care of all his children, at the expense of those&#0160; concepts so important to the Founding Fathers of this nation state we call home.<br /><br />And, as a last thought Madam Speaker, if you, the President or Congress feel this &#39;Great White Father Complex&#39; overwhelming your common sense; please think of the Native Americans and reservations; think of black families in inner cities; think of single moms married to the government; think of the many family units without a real &#39;father&#39; living in the household. Please just think.<br /><br /><br />With all due respect,<br /><br /><br />Lightfoot Letters</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a>&#0160;</div> <p>.</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <div><a name="4703006835466282678" target="_blank"></a> <h3><a href="http://lightfootletters.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-25-2010-nancy-pelosi-congresswoman.html" target="_blank">Madam Speaker</a></h3> </div> <div>May 25, 2010<br /><br /><br />Nancy Pelosi<br />Congresswoman 8th. District California<br /><br /><br />Madam Speaker,</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>I listened with interest as you spoke of a civilized society. John Loke, the father of liberalism, thought &#39;tolerance&#39; was necessary for a civilized society to continue as a civilized society and prosper as a free nation.<br /><br />Tolerance, a liberal concept, that the Democrat Party is completely lacking. From being members and supporters of the Klan, to being members and supporters of the Race; from union thugs on the street, to political thugs on the college campus; from illiberal hacks in the media, to illiberal hacks in the education system, from the oppression of the Federal Government to the oppression of public employee unions, the Democrat Party shows a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to maintain a civilized society.<br /><br />That is, the liberal concept of tolerance which is necessary for all citizens to exercise those &#39;natural rights.&#39; Those natural rights found in liberalism that can not be granted nor denied by the state. Which, one is, that I alone may decide what is best for myself, as long I cause no harm to others. Yes, tolerance is absolutely necessary for a civilized society to continue and prosper as a free nation state. I hope you Madam Speaker, the President and Congress will keep this in mind when you feel the need to act as &#39;The Great White Father&#39; taking care of all his children, at the expense of those&#0160; concepts so important to the Founding Fathers of this nation state we call home.<br /><br />And, as a last thought Madam Speaker, if you, the President or Congress feel this &#39;Great White Father Complex&#39; overwhelming your common sense; please think of the Native Americans and reservations; think of black families in inner cities; think of single moms married to the government; think of the many family units without a real &#39;father&#39; living in the household. Please just think.<br /><br /><br />With all due respect,<br /><br /><br />Lightfoot Letters</div> <div>&#0160;</div> <div>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a>&#0160;</div>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0147e1f69646970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2011-01-25T21:12:55Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0147e1f69641970bCommon Sensehttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2011-01-25T21:12:55Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>Published Feb 14,&#0160; 2008 OC Register - Feb. 11, 2011 Newport Beach Independent</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> </p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">&#0160;</p> <p><strong>It&#39;s &#39;Common Sense&#39; Day</strong></p> <p><strong><br /></strong>Why is Feb. 14 important? Something very special occurred on that day. No, I do not mean buying some dopey card or flowers because you feel obligated to perform. It was not the day I got married or when I got my first Corvette. My first son was born on Feb. 16. I knew there was some important reason. I mean really important. And then it came to me. &quot;Common Sense&quot; was published Feb. 14, 1776.<br />See, I knew there was a very special reason we celebrated Feb. 14. Now, if you must buy something to celebrate Feb. 14, make it a copy of &quot;Common Sense&quot; by <span style="color: #264ec0;">Thomas Paine</span>, especially for the kids whom you love the most.</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">- Lightfoot Letters</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">&#0160;</p> <p>Published Feb 14,&#0160; 2008 OC Register - Feb. 11, 2011 Newport Beach Independent</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" /> </p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">&#0160;</p> <p><strong>It&#39;s &#39;Common Sense&#39; Day</strong></p> <p><strong><br /></strong>Why is Feb. 14 important? Something very special occurred on that day. No, I do not mean buying some dopey card or flowers because you feel obligated to perform. It was not the day I got married or when I got my first Corvette. My first son was born on Feb. 16. I knew there was some important reason. I mean really important. And then it came to me. &quot;Common Sense&quot; was published Feb. 14, 1776.<br />See, I knew there was a very special reason we celebrated Feb. 14. Now, if you must buy something to celebrate Feb. 14, make it a copy of &quot;Common Sense&quot; by <span style="color: #264ec0;">Thomas Paine</span>, especially for the kids whom you love the most.</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">- Lightfoot Letters</p> <p style="font-weight: bold;">&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0148c701d284970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-12-23T20:53:15Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0148c701d281970cA Christmas Storyhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2010-12-23T20:53:15Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Short Christmas Story </span>- <span style="font-size: xx-small;">very short&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Published Dec. 24 2010 - Newport Beach Independent</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">So This is Christmas,</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; And, What Have you Done,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Another Year Over,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; And a New One Begun</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">&#0160;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">I think about &#39;What Have I Done&#39;!? No other pop song makes me think about the philosophy&#0160; </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">&#0160; of Christmas&#0160;Season and the religious implications.&#0160; I should listen to this song more. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;Like Valentines Day&#0160;and Thanksgiving. Possibly a few other days.</span><br />&#0160;<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Merry, Merry Christmas</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">And, a Happy New Year,</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;Let&#39;s Hope It&#39;s a Good One,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; With Love and no Fear</span><br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">That is my wish for all those I know and all those I have failed to know.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Lightfoot Letters</span></span></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;The words may not be exactly as Lennon wrote them, but it is just a song...right?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Comments</span><br /><br /></p> <div><span style="font-size: 8pt;">grlittlewoth; Only a song but with some very, very meaningful words.</span><br /><br /></div> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">library expert; It&#39;s wonderful and so very appropriate.&#0160; At the end of my Xmas letter I wrote that &quot;may 2011 learn from the past.&quot;&#0160; It&#39;s a start. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">broadwayjane; Thanks...very well said...and Merry Christmas to you, too,&#0160;and best wishes for a great new year!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">futurewoman; Thanks.....yes I see your point, and once again it is profound.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">newspap.editor; Thanks, that&#39;s one of my favorite songs.<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Happy Christmas.</span></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p> <p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Short Christmas Story </span>- <span style="font-size: xx-small;">very short&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Published Dec. 24 2010 - Newport Beach Independent</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">So This is Christmas,</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; And, What Have you Done,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Another Year Over,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; And a New One Begun</span><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">&#0160;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">I think about &#39;What Have I Done&#39;!? No other pop song makes me think about the philosophy&#0160; </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">&#0160; of Christmas&#0160;Season and the religious implications.&#0160; I should listen to this song more. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;Like Valentines Day&#0160;and Thanksgiving. Possibly a few other days.</span><br />&#0160;<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">Merry, Merry Christmas</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">And, a Happy New Year,</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; &#0160;Let&#39;s Hope It&#39;s a Good One,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; With Love and no Fear</span><br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">That is my wish for all those I know and all those I have failed to know.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Lightfoot Letters</span></span></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p><br /><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;The words may not be exactly as Lennon wrote them, but it is just a song...right?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Comments</span><br /><br /></p> <div><span style="font-size: 8pt;">grlittlewoth; Only a song but with some very, very meaningful words.</span><br /><br /></div> <p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">library expert; It&#39;s wonderful and so very appropriate.&#0160; At the end of my Xmas letter I wrote that &quot;may 2011 learn from the past.&quot;&#0160; It&#39;s a start. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">broadwayjane; Thanks...very well said...and Merry Christmas to you, too,&#0160;and best wishes for a great new year!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">futurewoman; Thanks.....yes I see your point, and once again it is profound.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 8pt;">newspap.editor; Thanks, that&#39;s one of my favorite songs.<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Happy Christmas.</span></span></p> <p><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0147e03e283b970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-11-29T18:56:23Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0147e03e2834970bThe HONOR & The DISHONOR http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2010-11-29T18:56:22Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>Nov.&#0160;8, 2009&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; 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font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><em><span style="color: #400000; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#0160; </span></em></em></span></em><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="50" id="ecxyiv448839908yiv680770120yiv1339864656yiv882269243yiv104427568ecxyiv240854100yiv1583439691ecxMA2.1281716087" src="https://65.55.72.87/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=63b04047-b53f-11df-b845-00215ad965b8&amp;attindex=1&amp;cp=-1&amp;attdepth=1&amp;imgsrc=cid%3a2.1051976279%40web83805.mail.sp1.yahoo.com&amp;hm__login=lightfoot228&amp;hm__domain=hotmail.com&amp;ip=10.13.128.8&amp;d=d3780&amp;mf=32&amp;hm__ts=Mon%2c%2027%20Dec%202010%2008%3a11%3a46%20GMT&amp;st=lightfoot228&amp;hm__ha=01_be6302a4c86947ffc449df364347d122e5be7a6d8ff966149d9cca455b09ca17&amp;oneredir=1" width="68" /></span></span> <br />&#0160;<br />Lightfoot Letters,&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; As another Veteran’s Day approaches I am taking a break from writing about the challenges to our Constitution to offer a personal “Thank You” to those men and women who have defended our Constitution and continue to do so. I have the distinct honor to be a member of a family that has had someone serving in every war that our nation has fought from the Revolution until today. I am a veteran, as was my father who served in WW II, and all four of my sons are either veterans or are currently serving. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I also have the honor of commanding an American Legion Post in Carrollton, Texas where there are men and women who are veterans of WW II and every war since then. The members of the Post come from many different backgrounds yet they share a bond that few others understand and some even scorn. They are American warriors who took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and they did so despite all of the obstacles many of them faced both at home and abroad. They have asked for little in return and have often gotten even less. However, they are entitled to respect, if nothing else.&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br style="clear: both;" /><img alt="" src="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/files/resized/3836/240;240;d4de4c8c389dd7dfe79c4ca7868d014a44a679e5.jpg" />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; When I wore the U.S. Army uniform I was spit on and cursed by those who were exercising the very freedoms that I was sworn to defend. I demand more for my sons and all those who have served and are now laying their lives on the line every day. I demand it not only from the American people, but from those politicians who use the lives of our servicemen and women as political pawns to serve their own ambitions. You may “talk the talk” of service to America but the members of our armed services “walk the walk” and they prove it by offering their blood as a sacrifice for their country. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; During the last several months I have had the honor and privilege of attending an American Indian Powwow in Bandera, Texas and a performance by tribe members during Santa Fe Days in Carrollton, Texas. On both occasions I was invited to participate in the “Veteran’s Dance” conducted by the Tribe members. This is open to all American military veterans, regardless of their race or background. As the drums play the honor songs and we dance in the sacred circles of the gatherings I can’t help but be humbled by being considered one of the warriors who has served our nation. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; As I write this my oldest son is preparing to leave for a 12 to 18 month deployment in Afghanistan. He has already served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. My youngest son, who has served over two years of active duty as an MP, is preparing to receive training to fly Blackhawk helicopters for the Army. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Yet, while we continue to send our bravest and finest to fight and die in foreign lands to protect our freedom we are also seeing them die on our own soil. It is time that we recognize that our brave warriors who died at Fort Hood were killed by one of the same people who has pledged to destroy our way of life. The time for political correctness has ended, we either unite and fight, or we surrender. I have no intention of surrendering. God Bless our men and women in uniform, God Bless our veterans, and God Bless America. <br />&#0160;<br /><br />Michael Connelly<br /><br />&#0160;<br />Author of &quot;<a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/the-mortarmen"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;">The Mortarmen</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&quot; a book about my father&#39;s unit in&#0160;WWII; <a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/riders-in-the-sky"><span style="color: #0068cf;">&quot;Riders in the Sky: The Ghosts and Legends of Philmont Scout Ranch&quot;</span></a>&#0160;</span>; and&#0160;my&#0160;just released novel&#0160;&quot;<span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;"><a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/Story"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;">Amayehli</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;"><a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/Story">: A Story of America</a></span></span></span>&quot;.<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Post by lightfootletters<br />The experience of being despised by so many, just for being in the military, is hard to forget. The reason for this mail from Michael Connelly was posted.<br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p> <p>Nov.&#0160;8, 2009&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><em><span style="color: #400000; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><em><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#0160; </span></em></em></span></em><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" height="50" id="ecxyiv448839908yiv680770120yiv1339864656yiv882269243yiv104427568ecxyiv240854100yiv1583439691ecxMA2.1281716087" src="http://65.55.72.87/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=63b04047-b53f-11df-b845-00215ad965b8&amp;attindex=1&amp;cp=-1&amp;attdepth=1&amp;imgsrc=cid%3a2.1051976279%40web83805.mail.sp1.yahoo.com&amp;hm__login=lightfoot228&amp;hm__domain=hotmail.com&amp;ip=10.13.128.8&amp;d=d3780&amp;mf=32&amp;hm__ts=Mon%2c%2027%20Dec%202010%2008%3a11%3a46%20GMT&amp;st=lightfoot228&amp;hm__ha=01_be6302a4c86947ffc449df364347d122e5be7a6d8ff966149d9cca455b09ca17&amp;oneredir=1" width="68" /></span></span> <br />&#0160;<br />Lightfoot Letters,&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; As another Veteran’s Day approaches I am taking a break from writing about the challenges to our Constitution to offer a personal “Thank You” to those men and women who have defended our Constitution and continue to do so. I have the distinct honor to be a member of a family that has had someone serving in every war that our nation has fought from the Revolution until today. I am a veteran, as was my father who served in WW II, and all four of my sons are either veterans or are currently serving. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I also have the honor of commanding an American Legion Post in Carrollton, Texas where there are men and women who are veterans of WW II and every war since then. The members of the Post come from many different backgrounds yet they share a bond that few others understand and some even scorn. They are American warriors who took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and they did so despite all of the obstacles many of them faced both at home and abroad. They have asked for little in return and have often gotten even less. However, they are entitled to respect, if nothing else.&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br style="clear: both;" /><img alt="" src="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/files/resized/3836/240;240;d4de4c8c389dd7dfe79c4ca7868d014a44a679e5.jpg" />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; When I wore the U.S. Army uniform I was spit on and cursed by those who were exercising the very freedoms that I was sworn to defend. I demand more for my sons and all those who have served and are now laying their lives on the line every day. I demand it not only from the American people, but from those politicians who use the lives of our servicemen and women as political pawns to serve their own ambitions. You may “talk the talk” of service to America but the members of our armed services “walk the walk” and they prove it by offering their blood as a sacrifice for their country. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; During the last several months I have had the honor and privilege of attending an American Indian Powwow in Bandera, Texas and a performance by tribe members during Santa Fe Days in Carrollton, Texas. On both occasions I was invited to participate in the “Veteran’s Dance” conducted by the Tribe members. This is open to all American military veterans, regardless of their race or background. As the drums play the honor songs and we dance in the sacred circles of the gatherings I can’t help but be humbled by being considered one of the warriors who has served our nation. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; As I write this my oldest son is preparing to leave for a 12 to 18 month deployment in Afghanistan. He has already served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. My youngest son, who has served over two years of active duty as an MP, is preparing to receive training to fly Blackhawk helicopters for the Army. <br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Yet, while we continue to send our bravest and finest to fight and die in foreign lands to protect our freedom we are also seeing them die on our own soil. It is time that we recognize that our brave warriors who died at Fort Hood were killed by one of the same people who has pledged to destroy our way of life. The time for political correctness has ended, we either unite and fight, or we surrender. I have no intention of surrendering. God Bless our men and women in uniform, God Bless our veterans, and God Bless America. <br />&#0160;<br /><br />Michael Connelly<br /><br />&#0160;<br />Author of &quot;<a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/the-mortarmen"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;">The Mortarmen</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&quot; a book about my father&#39;s unit in&#0160;WWII; <a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/riders-in-the-sky"><span style="color: #0068cf;">&quot;Riders in the Sky: The Ghosts and Legends of Philmont Scout Ranch&quot;</span></a>&#0160;</span>; and&#0160;my&#0160;just released novel&#0160;&quot;<span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;"><a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/Story"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;">Amayehli</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0068cf;"><a href="http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/Story">: A Story of America</a></span></span></span>&quot;.<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Post by lightfootletters<br />The experience of being despised by so many, just for being in the military, is hard to forget. The reason for this mail from Michael Connelly was posted.<br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <br /><a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b013488d7b1e0970c lightfootletters posted something https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-11-09T23:11:29Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b013488d7b1de970chttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment2010-11-09T23:11:29Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0133f5a33cdd970b lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-11-06T18:52:04Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f5a33cda970bCesar Chavez a fierce opponent of illegal immigrationhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2010-11-06T18:52:04Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>May 10, 2010<br />&#0160;<br />Robert J. Birgeneau<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Office of the Chancellor<br />200 California Hall # 1500<br />University of California<br />Berkeley, CA 94720-1500</span><br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Robert J. Birgeneau<br />&#0160;<br />Dear Sir,<br />&#0160;<br />Questions and comments Regarding claims by CHANGE.org as to these statements.<br />&quot;Students at UC Berkeley are outraged at the recent passage of Arizona&#39;s SB1070.&quot;<br />&quot;We are guided by the spirit of past movements (from Cesar Chavez, to the American Indian Movement, to the Black Panthers and twLF). We are committed to do a hunger strike until our demands are met by Chancellor Birgeneau.&quot;&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />The ignorance of your young wards is embarrassing to say the least. It would seem appropriate to inform them Cesar Chavez was against&#0160; illegal immigration and most likely would have been a strong supporter of SB 1070,&#0160;which is the same as&#0160;Federal Immigration law.<br />&quot;Not only was Cesar Chavez against illegal immigration, not only did he speak out against the Mexican invasion before Congress, not only did <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/related/to/United+Farm+Workers" target="_blank" title="United Farm Workers"><span style="color: #253c87;">United Farm Workers</span></a> members monitor the United States-Mexico border à la the Minutemen, but Chavez even sicced <em>la migra</em> on the undocumented from time to time.&quot; &#0160;Gustavo Arellano - Houston Press/OC Weekly<br /><br />Chavez was against illegal immigration in no uncertain terms. That is, because he new that a steady flow of illegal workers would depress and keep&#0160;farm workers wages below a livable income.&#0160; &quot;when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking&quot;&#0160; Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers&#0160;- Congressional Testimony.<br /><br /><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #b9b9b9;"><em>&quot;The sainted labor leader (Chavez)&#0160;was unalterably opposed to legalizing undocumented workers. It is dishonest for immigration reform advocates to invoke his name in their cause. T</em>he historical record shows that Chavez was a fierce opponent of illegal immigration</span><em><span style="color: #b9b9b9;">&quot;&#0160;&#0160;*Ruben Navarrette Jr.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</em>&#0160;</span><br /><br />&quot;We native American Indians are offended and appalled by Hispanic Immigrants who attempt to erase the history of our indigenous native people and replace it with a pack of lies about some Mexican history that, in fact, never existed. Your blood is not your passport. You are not indigenous Tribal&#0160;Indians of California.&#0160; And if you came to this country illegally you are a criminal, with no respect for the laws of this country.&quot;</p> <div class="ecxecxRTE">Sequoia Patterson - Costa Mesa Ca.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">It is difficult to believe&#0160;or justify the billions of dollars we spend&#0160;on public education. Supposedly the best in the world and turn out teachers, professors, school boards&#0160;and students that can not comprehend, interpret or apply simple basic information.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">It is my humble opinion that you let these students stay on a permanent hunger strike.&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;And, let the rest of us get on with the important aspects of keeping this nation state, we are so lucky call home, intact and all in one piece for as long as we can.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">Yours truly,</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">Lightfoot Letters&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">ps: The University of California is accountable to the tax paying citizens of California not&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; the students.&#0160;And, if you feel there are errors in the content of this letter please reply with your corrections.&#0160; I will include your reply/corrections in all published commentary.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">cc: Open Letter&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">cc: San Diego Unified School District&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">*<em>Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union Tribune, a nationally syndicated columnist, a frequent lecturer, and a regular contributor to CNN.com.</em></div> <p><em></em>&#0160;</p> <p><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; It should be noted there was no responce from The University Of California.</em></p> <p><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;San Diego Unified School District</em></p> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;The LA Times Group declined publication&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>May 10, 2010<br />&#0160;<br />Robert J. Birgeneau<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Office of the Chancellor<br />200 California Hall # 1500<br />University of California<br />Berkeley, CA 94720-1500</span><br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Robert J. Birgeneau<br />&#0160;<br />Dear Sir,<br />&#0160;<br />Questions and comments Regarding claims by CHANGE.org as to these statements.<br />&quot;Students at UC Berkeley are outraged at the recent passage of Arizona&#39;s SB1070.&quot;<br />&quot;We are guided by the spirit of past movements (from Cesar Chavez, to the American Indian Movement, to the Black Panthers and twLF). We are committed to do a hunger strike until our demands are met by Chancellor Birgeneau.&quot;&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />The ignorance of your young wards is embarrassing to say the least. It would seem appropriate to inform them Cesar Chavez was against&#0160; illegal immigration and most likely would have been a strong supporter of SB 1070,&#0160;which is the same as&#0160;Federal Immigration law.<br />&quot;Not only was Cesar Chavez against illegal immigration, not only did he speak out against the Mexican invasion before Congress, not only did <a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/related/to/United+Farm+Workers" target="_blank" title="United Farm Workers"><span style="color: #253c87;">United Farm Workers</span></a> members monitor the United States-Mexico border à la the Minutemen, but Chavez even sicced <em>la migra</em> on the undocumented from time to time.&quot; &#0160;Gustavo Arellano - Houston Press/OC Weekly<br /><br />Chavez was against illegal immigration in no uncertain terms. That is, because he new that a steady flow of illegal workers would depress and keep&#0160;farm workers wages below a livable income.&#0160; &quot;when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking&quot;&#0160; Cesar Chavez - United Farm Workers&#0160;- Congressional Testimony.<br /><br /><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #b9b9b9;"><em>&quot;The sainted labor leader (Chavez)&#0160;was unalterably opposed to legalizing undocumented workers. It is dishonest for immigration reform advocates to invoke his name in their cause. T</em>he historical record shows that Chavez was a fierce opponent of illegal immigration</span><em><span style="color: #b9b9b9;">&quot;&#0160;&#0160;*Ruben Navarrette Jr.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</span>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</em>&#0160;</span><br /><br />&quot;We native American Indians are offended and appalled by Hispanic Immigrants who attempt to erase the history of our indigenous native people and replace it with a pack of lies about some Mexican history that, in fact, never existed. Your blood is not your passport. You are not indigenous Tribal&#0160;Indians of California.&#0160; And if you came to this country illegally you are a criminal, with no respect for the laws of this country.&quot;</p> <div class="ecxecxRTE">Sequoia Patterson - Costa Mesa Ca.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">It is difficult to believe&#0160;or justify the billions of dollars we spend&#0160;on public education. Supposedly the best in the world and turn out teachers, professors, school boards&#0160;and students that can not comprehend, interpret or apply simple basic information.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">It is my humble opinion that you let these students stay on a permanent hunger strike.&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;And, let the rest of us get on with the important aspects of keeping this nation state, we are so lucky call home, intact and all in one piece for as long as we can.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">Yours truly,</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">Lightfoot Letters&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">ps: The University of California is accountable to the tax paying citizens of California not&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; the students.&#0160;And, if you feel there are errors in the content of this letter please reply with your corrections.&#0160; I will include your reply/corrections in all published commentary.</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">cc: Open Letter&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">cc: San Diego Unified School District&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">*<em>Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union Tribune, a nationally syndicated columnist, a frequent lecturer, and a regular contributor to CNN.com.</em></div> <p><em></em>&#0160;</p> <p><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; It should be noted there was no responce from The University Of California.</em></p> <p><em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;San Diego Unified School District</em></p> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;The LA Times Group declined publication&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;</div> <div class="ecxecxRTE">&#0160;</div> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0133f54618f4970b lightfootletters posted something https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-10-22T22:32:02Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f54618f3970bhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment2010-10-22T22:32:02Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269The Pagan Religion That Keeps on Takingtag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b01348865fd02970c lightfootletters is now following Alfredtheordinary.wordpress.com https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/follow2010-10-22T22:22:38Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0134884f6a58970cAlfredtheordinary.wordpress.comhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/persontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0134883f0acc970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-10-16T21:15:35Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0134883f0aca970cThe Pagan Religion That Keeps on Takinghttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2010-10-16T21:15:34Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>&#0160;</p> <p>Regarding the Feb. 5-18 issue’s story “Proposed Coastal Marinas Permit Could Hit Local Marinas Hard” (about a new State Water Resources Control Board proposal to require California marinas, yacht clubs and municipalities with 10 or more slips or moorings to obtain a new permit and begin industry-style pollution monitoring and control procedures): <br />There are several problems with the Water Resources Control Board (and, for that matter, the California Air Resources Board) going far beyond their mandates to raise money to fund themselves. <br />First, the stated purpose and cause of the rules, regulations and penalties to be imposed is not the same as the actual purpose and cause. (For instance, the board’s stated purpose is to reduce and monitor pollution of waterways; however, some would argue that the real goal of new regulations is to raise millions of dollars.)</p> <p>Second, this board (and other similar boards) creates the law (regulations everyone must follow and fees everyone must pay), interprets the law, enforces the law and decides punishment, through administrative order. This is contrary to the way our government was designed to operate.</p> <p>In fact, only the legislature can create law. Only the judiciary can interpret the law. Only the police authorities can enforce the law. These powers, collectively, may not be delegated to unelected boards.</p> <p>The board’s actions violate the separation of powers doctrine, due process and equal protection. They amount to a taking of the authority of duly elected representatives, and they abridge the privilege and immunities of the citizens of California.</p> <p>A system of selective rules and regulations has been established that, in fact, violates portions of the U.S. Constitution.</p> <p>The solution? The State Water Resources Control Board — and all like boards and commissions — must be dissolved, and all its decisions voided. If that is not currently possible, all such mandates (by the Water Resources Control Board, and other similar unelected boards) should be ignored by all California cities and counties.</p> <p>“This year we are going to try to do government better,” Newport Beach Mayor Keith Curry has said. My suggestion: Have the city attorney send a letter to these various boards, just say “No, thanks” to their edicts and let the battle for these boards’ survival begin.</p> <p>That would be doing government better.</p> <p>It is better to die fighting than to live under “the pagan religion of environmentalism.”</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Published Mar. 19, 2010 - The Log - California Boating News&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="https://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Regarding the Feb. 5-18 issue’s story “Proposed Coastal Marinas Permit Could Hit Local Marinas Hard” (about a new State Water Resources Control Board proposal to require California marinas, yacht clubs and municipalities with 10 or more slips or moorings to obtain a new permit and begin industry-style pollution monitoring and control procedures): <br />There are several problems with the Water Resources Control Board (and, for that matter, the California Air Resources Board) going far beyond their mandates to raise money to fund themselves. <br />First, the stated purpose and cause of the rules, regulations and penalties to be imposed is not the same as the actual purpose and cause. (For instance, the board’s stated purpose is to reduce and monitor pollution of waterways; however, some would argue that the real goal of new regulations is to raise millions of dollars.)</p> <p>Second, this board (and other similar boards) creates the law (regulations everyone must follow and fees everyone must pay), interprets the law, enforces the law and decides punishment, through administrative order. This is contrary to the way our government was designed to operate.</p> <p>In fact, only the legislature can create law. Only the judiciary can interpret the law. Only the police authorities can enforce the law. These powers, collectively, may not be delegated to unelected boards.</p> <p>The board’s actions violate the separation of powers doctrine, due process and equal protection. They amount to a taking of the authority of duly elected representatives, and they abridge the privilege and immunities of the citizens of California.</p> <p>A system of selective rules and regulations has been established that, in fact, violates portions of the U.S. Constitution.</p> <p>The solution? The State Water Resources Control Board — and all like boards and commissions — must be dissolved, and all its decisions voided. If that is not currently possible, all such mandates (by the Water Resources Control Board, and other similar unelected boards) should be ignored by all California cities and counties.</p> <p>“This year we are going to try to do government better,” Newport Beach Mayor Keith Curry has said. My suggestion: Have the city attorney send a letter to these various boards, just say “No, thanks” to their edicts and let the battle for these boards’ survival begin.</p> <p>That would be doing government better.</p> <p>It is better to die fighting than to live under “the pagan religion of environmentalism.”</p> <p>Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>&#0160;</p> <p>Published Mar. 19, 2010 - The Log - California Boating News&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <a href="http://www.tinycounter.com/" target="_blank" title="free counter"><img align="absMiddle" alt="free counter" border="0" src="http://mycounter.tinycounter.com/index.php?user=marklightfoot" /></a></p> <p>&#0160;</p>tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0133f3ae75ef970bLightfoot Lettershttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0133f5033e89970b lightfootletters posted something https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-10-12T16:58:22Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a00d8341c60bf53ef0133f5033e84970bhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment2010-10-12T16:58:22Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269Islamic Justice: Husband cuts off wife’s nose in Turkish village – Then She Gets Beaten by Police tag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a00d8341c60bf53ef00d83451c1c069e2Atlas Shrugshttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collectiontag:api.typepad.com,2009:6e0133f3ae75d2970b0134880aa80e970c lightfootletters posted an entry https://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post2010-10-07T22:50:36Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6a0133f3ae75d2970b0134880aa80a970cIllegal alien admitted to a college - Legal resident turned awayhttp://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/article2010-10-07T22:50:36Ztag:api.typepad.com,2009:6p0133f3ae75d2970blightfootlettershttp://profile.typepad.com/lightfoot269<p>Sept. 29, 2010</p> <p>&#0160;<br />Governor of the State of California<br />Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger<br />State Capitol Building<br />Sacramento, CA 95814<br /><br />&#0160;<br />Dear Sir,<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Illegal aliens should not pay less for California colleges than American students from other states or military families. This amounts to preferential treatment for individuals outside the law.<br />For every illegal alien admitted to a college,&#0160;US citizen&#0160;or legal resident is turned away. This can not be viewed in the best interests of the United States or the State of California.</p> <p><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <img alt="" height="214" id="placeholder" onclick="return clickedImage(this);" src="https://gov.ca.gov/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/images/essays/1007201002.jpg&amp;w=320&amp;q=75&amp;err=error" width="320" /> </p> <div id="imageCaption"> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gov. Schwarzenegger joined Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin and Police Chief Jerry Dyer to honor Victor Perez, the Good Samaritan who chased down an alleged kidnapper and helped free a young girl.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; (Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor).</span></p> </div> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;<br /></span>The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act allows a state to provide subsidized, lower in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens,&#0160; if the state also provides the same low rate to U.S. citizens who are residents of other states. SB 1460 and AB 1413 do not comply with this requirement and would violate federal law. We already have a &#39;selective system&#39; of law enforcement in the State of California. We, as a people do not need to add more to&#0160;the corrupt system we already have.<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Please consider how this effects the very foundation of our legal and moral/ethical system.<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Thank you,<br />&#0160;<br />Lightfoot Letters</p> <p>Sept. 29, 2010</p> <p>&#0160;<br />Governor of the State of California<br />Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger<br />State Capitol Building<br />Sacramento, CA 95814<br /><br />&#0160;<br />Dear Sir,<br />&#0160;<br />&#0160;<br />Illegal aliens should not pay less for California colleges than American students from other states or military families. This amounts to preferential treatment for individuals outside the law.<br />For every illegal alien admitted to a college,&#0160;US citizen&#0160;or legal resident is turned away. This can not be viewed in the best interests of the United States or the State of California.</p> <p><br />&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; <img alt="" height="214" id="placeholder" onclick="return clickedImage(this);" src="http://gov.ca.gov/phpThumb/phpThumb.php?src=/images/essays/1007201002.jpg&amp;w=320&amp;q=75&amp;err=error" width="320" /> </p> <div id="imageCaption"> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Gov. Schwarzenegger joined Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin and Police Chief Jerry Dyer to honor Victor Perez, the Good Samaritan who chased down an alleged kidnapper and helped free a young girl.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; (Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor).</span></p> </div> <p><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&#0160;<br /></span>The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act allows a state to provide subsidized, lower in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens,&#0160; if the state also provides the same low rate to U.S. citizens who are residents of other states. SB 1460 and AB 1413 do not comply with this requirement and would violate federal law. We already have a &#39;selective system&#39; of law enforcement in the State of California. 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